2012-02-04T19:02:49Z Kevin Glass Copyright 2012, Kevin Glass SPHPBLOG
Crush (by Lex)

Good work!! :D

Here the complete results, based on this calculation:

1°: Crush
2°: Shapetronic
3°: Enchanting Cadence
4°: Elemental
5°: Back to the past

Read more over at the forums.]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry110604-074433 2011-06-04T00:00:00Z 2011-06-04T00:00:00Z
Time to Play the Games!
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Sign Up Here!]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry110310-130445 2011-03-10T00:00:00Z 2011-03-10T00:00:00Z LibGDX it's all a lot easier. A few hours of hacking later and I have:



More details on the forum as it continues...]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry101126-123313 2010-11-26T00:00:00Z 2010-11-26T00:00:00Z
Check out the Nightly Builds Page]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry101015-082345 2010-10-15T00:00:00Z 2010-10-15T00:00:00Z
WE'RE BACK!

More fast development, more features, more games! I'm working on some stuff with Android/Java2D as well so watch this space. Slick-wise I'm back and doing bug runs. Then we'll look at some new features including the long awaited (oldest RFE we have) DXTn support.

Thanks very much to the community for keeping things ticking over while I've been out of action - hopefully we can all get more involved in the project to make up for your hard work.

Looking forward to the future..]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry101014-105913 2010-10-14T00:00:00Z 2010-10-14T00:00:00Z
We're pushing up to 290 source files now and a hell of lot of tools and tests.

More cool, Slick is seeing new games being developed with it all the time. Anything 2D seems to be possible and quite a few other variations of view point.

Check out the Forums for examples and an active, helpful community!]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry091123-225320 2009-11-23T00:00:00Z 2009-11-23T00:00:00Z
The theme?

BEER!

Excellent choice, and there sounds like there will even be a token prize up for grabs. Running for a month the only requirements are that you use Slick (or Slick-Util) and the game has something to do with Beer.

Go read more and sign up over here!]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry090923-115742 2009-09-23T00:00:00Z 2009-09-23T00:00:00Z
The library has slowed development a bit, mostly because there arn't that many feature requirements. I'm working on a lot of projects at the moment so it's good for me that it's gone into a lull of simply bug fixes here and there.

The next big tasks will be:

- Add resource management (maybe incorporate some ideas from ReBirth?)
- Break up the packaging into separate modules
- Look at some higher level entity system
- Start breaking some API for some of the fixes that just haven't been possible as yet.

That said, it's still going strong with plenty of users and wonderfully active forums. I couldn't have asked for more :)]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry090815-100621 2009-08-15T00:00:00Z 2009-08-15T00:00:00Z
Thanks for your patience.]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry090705-133418 2009-07-05T00:00:00Z 2009-07-05T00:00:00Z
http://slick.cokeandcode.com/mavenrepo

The first valid build in the repository is 250.]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry090410-131548 2009-04-10T00:00:00Z 2009-04-10T00:00:00Z
Version 0.3 is released.

This release has improved stability, performance and reliability. A wealth of bug fixes and enhancements have been applied. Thanks to everyone providing bug reports and tweaks for various platforms.

New Features:

- Unicode Font support (NateS)
- Reworked Applet Container (KappaOne)
- Reworked Canvas Container
- Slick-Util subset made available for LWJGL users
- Masking utilities
- Simple XML API
- SVG support extended
- Input System refactor

Existing Features:

- BigImage allows loading and manipulation of images larger than maximum texture size
- SVG Loading and Rendering (limited subset)
- Resolution independent game framework
- Abstract input/control system
- Image Saving
- Path finding utilities
- Image rendering (Manipulation, Offscreen buffers)
- OGG, XM, MOD, AIF, WAV audio playback (streaming and in memory)
- Particle System and supplied Editor (Pedigree)
- Font Rendering (SpriteSheet, AngelCode) and supplied Editor (Hiero)
- Geometric Shapes (Collision, Rendering)
- TileMap rendering based on Tiled
- Simple GUI framework (check out SUI for a more complete GUI extension)
- Deferred Loading
- Muffin/LocalStore support
- Applet/App/Canvas containers
- Animation Wrapper
- State Based game system (Transition effects framework)
- Java2D like Graphics context for rendering to LWJGL
- Sprite Sheet support (regular and packed using ImagePacker)
- Game Controller/Mouse/Keyboard support via LWJGL
- Cursor/Icon wrapped image support

http://slick.cokeandcode.com/demos/vers ... ck-0.3.jar

This release marks a point from which we can start fixes some of the more annoying issues and reworking some of the framework. After 0.3 API are likely to be changing which may cause breakages with existing games - so it's time to start versioning that webstart!
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SingSong Karaoke

Sudoku Dreams

Rocket Pod

The library is also being expanded by the community:

SVG Engine]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry080911-080932 2008-09-11T00:00:00Z 2008-09-11T00:00:00Z
Well, there are a few options that are known to work with Slick:

Nifty GUI - a flashy GUI in development which a Slick binding.

SUI - a now abandoned (anyone want to pick it up?) but perfectly usable GUI based on Slick.

FengGUI - a rich feature set and a popular choice. There's several set of integration codes posted on the Forums.

And finally, my recent addition to the foray - Thingle which is a OpenGL wrapping of the wonderful Thinlet Classic. It has a Slick binding of course ;)]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry080725-152537 2008-07-25T00:00:00Z 2008-07-25T00:00:00Z

Highnoon Remake


Mootox 2D Truck Racing


Cute Planet Puzzle


SlickRocket


SpiderTrap


HarryPotter Quiz


Spark

If you know or any others, let me know!



]]> http://slick.cokeandcode.com/index.php?entry=entry080510-222927 2008-05-10T00:00:00Z 2008-05-10T00:00:00Z on the post

Essentially it allows you to scale stuff up from tiny images, maintaining some pretty convincing detail levels. The magic is in another image thats generated from a big version of the image, storing alpha values describing the detail. As you can tell I don't really understand it, but with Orangy's help and a bit of code I've added generation of these fields into Hiero. You get this sort of result with low quality settings:



Ok, so why is this better than using true type fonts and generating them at run time. Well, it's not generically better - there are cases for both - the pro's of this are pretty compelling tho:

1) No generation at startup
2) Much lower use of graphics card resources
3) Fonts can be scaled up and down without regeneration

Great feature. Many thanks to the hard work of the folks at Valve and of course the Tang.

I'm still wondering whether we can get it to support a texture rather than the plain old image and of course whether it's possible to get back some antialiasing.
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