Openage Development: 2020 - Week 37

Upstream

• NEW: Documentation overhaul for converter and gamestate development (Link)
• FIXED: MSVC compiling issues (Link)

Issues

• PROPOSED: Better nyan imports for nyan file creation (Link)
• PROPOSED: Split converted data into multiple modpacks (Link)
• PROPOSED: Store game edition and game expansion info in auxiliary file instead of hardcoding it (Link)
• PROPOSED: Parse nyan API objects in converter instead of hardcoding them (Link)
• PROPOSED: Store hash-version map files for acquiring version number (Link)
• PROPOSED: Use processor for saving media export requests (Link)

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Open Discussions

• open_memstream() alternative implementation (Link)

Roadmap

1. Rewrite of the coordinate system ✓
2. Merge eventsystem code ✓
3. Implement core gamestate
   • nyan file loading and pong demo ✓
   • run pong with generic openage entities ✓
   • Decouple the simulation from display
   • Define minimal gamestate for displaying entities
4. New converter ✓
   • Better data reading structures ✓
   • Conversion to openage API ✓
   • nyan exporter ✓
   • Converters for AoE1, SWGB and DE2 ✓ (DE1 and HD postponed)
5. Create a simple demo for testing
6. Adapt the new renderer to the simulation model