Pancake

Pancake is the basis for all libGDX games developed by eskalon.

Technical

Pancake uses the following libraries and frameworks :

• libGDX
• libgdx-screenmanager
• guacamole
• gdx-vfx (in a forked version)
• freetype-skin
• reflections (for DesktopFieldAnnotationScanner which is used in for asset loading)

Content

A selection of what Pancake offers:

core

• AbstractEskalonApplication: the core application; has to be created via EskalonApplicationStarter to take advantage of its features. Dependency injection is used to provide various useful objects, for instance a sprite batch, an asset manager, a sound manager, an event bus, a post processing pipeline etc.
• AnnotationAssetManager
  • @Asset("cool_texture.jpg"), @Asset(value = "ui/skin/skin.json", params = "ui/skin/skin.atlas")
  • #loadAnnotatedAssets(Class<T> clazz)
  • #injectAssets(Class<T> clazz, @Nullable T instance); superseded by IInjector#injectMembers(Object)
  • #registerAssetLoaderParametersFactory(Class<T> clazz, AssetLoaderParametersFactory<T> factory)
• DefaultSoundManager & Playlist
  • #playSoundEffect(String name)
  • #playMusic(String playlistName)
  • Playlist files (loaded via PlaylistDefinitionLoader):

{
   name: "best_playlist_ever",
   shuffle: true,
   repeat: true,
   music: [
        [
           "My favourite song",
           "my_favourite_song.mp3"
        ],
     ]
 }

• EskalonInjector: a simple dependency injection system; the most common classes are registered by EskalonApplicationStarter and AbstractEskalonApplication
• EventBus: a simple event bus system
• PostProcessingPipeline: A simple post processing pipeline based on gdx-vfx
• DefaultInputHandler; provides mappable key bindings which can be handled via IInputListener
• Lang, ILocalizable & ILocalized
  • Lang#get(String key, Object... args)
• DebugInfoRenderer: renders some debug information, including a neat FPS graph
• AbstractAssetLoadingScreen: a screen loading all assets annotated with @Asset in a specified package
• AbstractEskalonUIScreen: a screen rendering a background image & a stage
• AbstractImageScreen: a simple screen rendering one image
• EskalonSplashScreen: a splash screen showing the eskalon logo as well as loading some internal assets
• EskalonSettings: handles settings via simple property objects
• RandomUtils: contains various methods dealing with random values
• GL32CMacIssueHandler: provides updated versions of the default shaders that are compatible with OpenGL 3.2

lwjgl3

• Audio implementations that support spatial audio
• A field annotation scanner utilising reflections

g3d

• A deferred renderer [WIP]

Collaboration

A list of all of our current contributors and the used external assets can be found in CONTRIBUTORS.md.