Excalibur v0.19.1

Fixed

• Fixed issue where there were missing files in the dist (Loader.css, Loader.logo.png) (#1057)

Excalibur v0.19.0

Thanks to @T00mm , @TheEyeOfBrows for their contributions!

Changed

• Excalibur user documentation has now moved to excaliburjs.com/docs
• Excalibur will now prompt for user input before starting the game to be inline with the new webaudio requirements from chrome/mobile browsers (#1031)

Deprecated

• PauseAfterLoader for iOS in favor of new click-to-play functionality built into the default Loader (#1031)

Fixed

• Fixed issue where Edge web audio playback was breaking (#1047)
• Fixed issue where pointer events do not work in mobile (#1044)
• Fixed issue where iOS was not loading by including the right polyfills (#1043)
• Fixed issue where sprites do not work in Firefox (#980)
• Fixed issue where collision pairs could sometimes be incorrect (#975)
• Fixed box collision velocity resolution so that objects resting on a surface do not accumulate velocity (#986)

Excalibur v0.18.0

Breaking Changes

• Sound.setVolume() replaced with Sound.volume
• Sound.setLoop() replaced with Sound.loop

Added

• Add Scene.isActorInDrawTree method to determine if an actor is in the scene's draw tree.

Fixed

• Fixed missing exitviewport/enterviewport events on Actors.on/once/off signatures (#978)
• Fix issue where Actors would not be properly added to a scene if they were removed from that scene during the same frame (#979)

Excalibur v0.17.0

Thanks to @frodgesh, @jamesmcgeorge, @rougepied, @clofresh, @LoserAntbear, @FerociousQuasar, and @Carghaez for their contributions!

Breaking Changes

• Property scope Pointer.actorsUnderPointer changed to private;
• Sprite.sx replaced with Sprite.x
• Sprite.sy replaced with Sprite.y
• Sprite.swidth replaced with Sprite.width
• Sprite.sheight replaced with Sprite.height

Added

• Allow timers to limit repeats to a finite number of times (#957)
• Convenience method on Scene to determine whether it is the current scene. Scene.isCurrentScene() (#982)
• New PointerEvent.stopPropagation() method added. Works the same way as (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/stopPropagation)
  (#912)
• New Actor.getAncestors() method, which retreives full array of current Actor ancestors
• Static Actor.defaults prop, which implements IActorDefaults.
• Native sound events now exposed
  • volumechange - on playing sound volume change;
  • pause - on playback pause;
  • stop - on playback stop;
  • emptied - on data cleanup(f.e. when setting new data);
  • resume - on playback resume;
  • playbackstart - on playback start;
  • playbackend - on playback end;
• Added Sound.instances getter, which returns active tracks. Playing or paused;
• Added Sound.getTrackId(track: [[AudioInstance]]) method. Which returns id of track provided,
  if it is in list of active tracks.

Changed

• Refactored Easing functions to be reversable (#944)
• Now at creation every Actor.anchor prop is set to default Actor.defaults.anchor.
• Scene.remove(Actor) now starts the Actor.Kill event cycle.(#981)

Deprecated

• CapturePointer.update() method now doesn't propagate event to actor, just verifies pointer events for actor.
• Added Sound.volume & Sound.loop properties as a replacement for Sound.setVolume() and Sound.setLoop(). The methods setVolume and setLoop have been marked obsolete.

Fixed

• Added missing variable assignments to TileMapImpl constructor (#957)
• Correct setting audio volume level from value to setValueAtTime to comply with deprecation warning in Chrome 59 (#953)
• Force HiDPI scaling to always be at least 1 to prevent visual artifacts in some browsers
• Recalculate physics geometry when width/height change on Actor (#948)
• Fix camera move chaining (#944)
• Fix pickSet(allowDuplicates: true) now returns the proper length array with correct elements (#977)
• Index export order to prevent almond.js from creation of corrupted modules loading order.
• Sound.pause() now saves correct timings.
• Fix ex.Vector.isValid edgecase at Infinity (#1006)

Excalibur v0.16.0

Thanks to @pathurs, @dgparker, and @rougepied for their contributions!

Added

• New typesafe and override safe event lifecycle overriding, all onEventName handlers will no longer be dangerous to override (#582)
  • New lifecycle event onPreKill and onPostKill
• SpriteSheets can now produce animations from bespoke sprite coordinates SpriteSheet.getAnimationByCoords(engine, coords[], speed) (#918)
• Added drag and drop support for Actors (#134)
  • New Event enter
  • New Event leave
  • New Event pointerenter
  • New Event pointerleave
  • New Event pointerdragstart
  • New Event pointerdragend
  • New Event pointerdragmove
  • New Event pointerdragenter
  • New Event pointerdragleave
  • New Class PointerDragEvent which extends PointerEvent
  • New Class GlobalCoordinates that contains Vectors for the world, the page, and the screen.
  • Added property ICapturePointerConfig.captureDragEvents which controls whether to emit drag events to the actor
  • Added property PointerEvent.pointer which equals the original pointer object

Deprecated

• Sprite.sx, Sprite.sy, Sprite.swidth, Sprite.sheight has be deprecated in favor of Sprite.x, Sprite.y, Sprite.width, Sprite.height (#918)

Fixed

• Added missing lifecycle event handlers on Actors, Triggers, Scenes, Engine, and Camera (#582)
• Tile Maps now correctly render negative x-axis coordinates (#904)
• Offscreen culling in HiDPI mode (#949)
  • Correct bounds check to check drawWidth/drawHeight for HiDPI
  • suppressHiDPIScaling now also suppresses pixel ratio based scaling
• Extract and separate Sprite width/height from drawWidth/drawHeight to prevent context corruption (#951)

Excalibur v0.15.0

Breaking Changes

• LockedCamera replaced with BaseCamera.strategy.lockToActor
• SideCamera replaced with BaseCamera.strategy.lockToActorAxis
• Body.wasTouching replaced with event type CollisionEnd

Added

• Option bag constructors have been added for commonly-used classes (see Constructors.md) (#410)

Excalibur v0.14.0

Breaking Changes

• Triggers now have a new option bag constructor using the ITriggerOptions interface. (#863).
• update event replaced with postupdate event
• CollisionEvent replaced by PreCollisionEvent
• getDrawWidth() and getDrawHeight() replaced with the getters drawWidth and drawHeight
• PointerEvent.x and PointerEvent.y replaced with PointerEvent.pos

Added

• Automatic HiDPI screen detection and scaling in excalibur internals to correct blurry bitmap rendering on HiDPI screens. This feature can optionally be suppressed with IEngineOptions.suppressHiDPIScaling.
• Added new line utility Line.normal() and Line.distanceToPoint (#703)
• Added new PolygonArea utility PolygonArea.getClosestFace(point) (#703)
• Triggers now fire an EnterTriggerEvent when an actor enters the trigger, and an ExitTriggerEvent when an actor exits the trigger. (#863)
• Actors have a new events CollisionStart which when 2 actors first start colliding and CollisionEnd when 2 actors are no longer colliding. (#863)
• New camera strategies implementation for following targets in a scene. Allows for custom strategies to be implemented on top of some prebuilt
  • LockCameraToActorStrategy which behaves like LockedCamera and can be switched on with Camera.strategy.lockToActor(actor).
  • LockCameraToActorAxisStrategy which behaves like SideCamera and can be switched on with Camera.strategy.lockToActorAxis(actor, ex.Axis.X)
  • ElasticToActorStrategy which is a new strategy that elastically moves the camera to an actor and can be switched on with Camera.strategy.elasticToActor(actor, cameraElasticity, cameraFriction)
  • CircleAroundActorStrategy which is a new strategy that will follow an actor when a certain radius from the camera focus and can be switched on with Camera.strategy.circleAroundActor(actor)

Changed

• Trigger have been rebuilt to provide a better experience. The trigger action only fires when an actor enters the designated area instead of every frame of collision. (#863)
• Triggers can now draw like other Actors, but are still not visible by default (#863)

Deprecated

• Body.wasTouching has been deprecated in favor of a new event type CollisionEnd (#863)
• SideCamera and LockedCamera are deprecated in favor of camera strategies

Fixed

• Fixed odd jumping behavior when polygons collided with the end of an edge (#703)

Excalibur v0.13.0

Thanks to @Nysosis and @Thraka for their contributions!

Breaking Changes

• Scene.children replaced with Scene.actors

Added

• New pause/unpause feature for timers to help with more robust pausing (#885)
• New event listening feature to listen to events only .once(...) then unsubscribe automatically (#745)
• New collision event postcollision to indicate if collision resolution occured (#880)

Deprecated

• PointerEvent.x and PointerEvent.y, in favor of PointerEvent.pos (#612)
• CollisionEvent has been deprecated in favor of the more clear PreCollisionEvent (#880)

Fixed

• Fixed same instance of color potentially being shared, and thus mutated, between instance actors (#840)
• Fixed bug where active and passive type collisions would resolve when they shouldn't when in rigid body mode (#880)

Excalibur v0.12.0

Thanks to @Crizzooo, @htalat, and @vritant24 for their contributions!

Breaking Changes

• CollisionType.Elastic has been removed
• Promises.wrap has been replaced with Promise.resolve

Added

• Added new hsl and hex format options in Color.toString(format) using rgb as the default to maintain backwards compatibility (#852)

Changed

• Animation.loop property now to set to true by default (#583)
• Added backgroundColor to engine options as part of Engine constructor (#846)

Deprecated

• ex.Scene.children is now ex.Scene.actors (#796)

Excalibur v0.11.0

Thanks to @andrewmbyrd, @Lephil, @mrkmg, and @Crizzooo for contributing in this release!

Breaking Changes

• Renamed Utils.removeItemToArray() to Utils.removeItemFromArray() (#798)

Added

• Added optional volume argument to Sound.play(volume?: number), which will play the Audio file at anywhere from mute (volume is 0.0) to full volume (volume is 1.0). (#801)
• Added another DisplayMode option: DisplayMode.Position. When this is selected as the displayMode type, the user must specify a new position option (#781)
• Added a static method distance to the Vector class (#517)
• Added WheelEvent event type for the wheel browser event, Excalibur now supports scroll wheel (#808)

Changed

• Camera zoom over time now returns a promise that resolves on completion (#800)
• Edge builds have more descriptive versions now containing build number and Git commit hash (e.g. 0.10.0-alpha.105#commit) (#777)

Fixed

• Fixed camera zoom over time, before it did not work at all (#800)
• Fixed semi-colon key not being detected on Firefox and Opera. (#789)