27.May.2025
Erik 'earok' Hogan (E-Mail)
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Game Construction Kit: Scorpion Engine 2024.2
The "Scorpion Engine" by Erik 'earok' Hogan enables the development of games. The engine itself is not open source, but all included demos and demo games are. The editor itself runs on Windows. Graphics are imported as PNG files, for level creation the editor Tiled is used. For sounds, music and animations Amiga formats (mod, 8svx, anim5) are used. Version 2024.2 was released today with numerous new features and updates.
Changes of version 2024.2
- AMIGA:
- "Trackdisk" export for Amiga produces NDOS disks with lower memory usage and lower loading times.
- Visual editor for parallax.
- CD32 NVRAM saving.
- Improved handling for scrolling, particularly where high bitplanes counts and wide screens are used.
- Improved support for keyboard commands, in particular multiple keypress/release events in a single frame are handled.
- MEGADRIVE:
- Much improved sprite pattern streaming.
- Support for some line scrolling options, including an "underwater" demo.
- NEOGEO:
- NeoGeo maps and actors use 21 sprites at most, allowing more layers of parallax to be added to each scanline.
- Support for NeoGeo's powerful auto animation feature for level backgrounds.
- Save cart support (as well as NeoGeo CD's internal save memory).
UNIVERSAL:
- New "Brixx" and "Snek" sample games generously donated by Zooperdan!
- Visual editing for platform jump arcs.
- Improvements for adding new lines to codeblocks.
- Various improvements to stability and performance across all platforms.
- High Score table sample game.
- "Look Up Tables" can be implemented in external text files, allowing large amounts of data to be referenced at real time.
- Major improvements for debug mode, including first time support on Mega Drive and NeoGeo.
Performance
Scorpion Engine uses a benchmark game which is not a scientific measure by any means, but it does give a general idea of how performance on each platform has improved.
- A500: 4 %
- A1200: 6 %
- A1200+Fast: 3 %
- Mega Drive: 6 %
- NeoGeo: 1 %
The complete source code for the Scorpion Engine is available for download under the title link. (nba)
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