Release Notes 0.5.1

Kiwi.js (BETA)

HTML5 game library written in TypeScript/Javascript

version 0.5.1

Release notes for this version

New Features

• Plugin Infrastructure
  See plugin documentation for details.

• Build Scripts
  Gruntfile now has three options:
  grunt dev - compiles typescript and minifies js.
  grunt docs - compiles documentation and copies kiwi logo and css over the top of compiled files.
  grunt full - does both of the above

Bug Fixes

Audio

• Audio now works in Cocoon (Audio tags only), also works on IPad 2 (Audio Tags) & Ipad 3 (WebAudio) API.

• On Ipad2 switching between sounds held in multiple audio tags can cause the removal of some audio from memory.

• ArcadePhysics Fixed code inconsistencies

Build Scripts
A number of typescript files were updated to allow compilation using the node based Typescript compiler 0.9.0.1.

Changes to API pre-exisiting API in this release

None - this release contains only bug fixes and new features, games that ran under 0.5.0 should run identically on 0.5.2
Note: To run the new grunt build script you'll need to update your node packages by doing npm install

See Kiwijs.org for more information about using Kiwi.js to build games, including some getting started examples. Note: this release is a beta and is not intended as a preview only and not for building production games at this stage.

Getting Started Tutorials
Code Examples
API Documentation
Contact

Aim

• An opensource TypeScript/Javascript library for game creation
• Targeting native mobile apps as well as both desktop and mobile browsers
• Future focused
• WebGL and 2D Canvas rendering
• Support for Cocoon.js as a native mobile app deployment solution

License

• GPL 2

Features

These features are either currently supported or very close to being supported. Many more features are in the pipeline.

• State Management
• Extensible game objects (such as sprites)
• Entity/Component system
• 2D Canvas
• 2D WebGL rendering (experimental)
• Target Cocoon.js (experimental)
• Full nested display list
• HTML5 HUD
• Tween Engine (based on Tween.js)
• Signals
• Spritesheets, Texture Atlases and Tilemaps
• Multitouch support
• Geometry Utilities
• Plugin System
• Arcade Physics
• File Management and loading
• Clocks and Timers

RoadMap

Within the next few weeks

• API documentation
• Improved build support (grunt)
• Lots of examples
• Many bug fixes and improved robustness

Within the next few months

• Plugins and products
• Much optimisation

Build

Kiwi.js is currently using Typescript 9.0.1 Either - use Visual Studio/TS extension. There are csproj files for both the main project and also the examples. Or - use the grunt file. This requires installing node.js, and the grunt CLI package.

The csproj and grunt compilation methods both output a single kiwi.js file in /build Grunt will also create a min.js version and also output a kiwi.d.ts definition file in /build as well Shortly there will be further grunt options for dev builds and for compiling the documentation using YUIDoc

Contribution

We'd love you to get involved in making the Kiwi.js library. If you'd like to contribute please get in touch, clone the repo and have a dig around. Full contributor guidelines will be here soon along with detailed build instructions.

Main Contributors

Ben Harding
Richard Davey
Ross Kettle

Kiwi.js also uses code from a number of open source projects. Effort has been made to clearly identify authors in the code comments. If you notice and missing or incorrect attribution please let us know.