Friday, January 10, 2025

Savor the Flavor

There is a new twist to the Donut Pong game. Now you must battle the computer to acquire new donut flavors by notching a net score of 0 to 2 = glazed, 3 to 6 = chocolate, 7 to 11 = strawberry, 12 and up = mystery berry flavor. For instance, score 3 more wins than the computer to see the glazed donut turn into a chocolate donut and 7 or more for strawberry. Also, this game is the first to use the new signed distance field physics engine from PlumeriaSC. Finally I came across a cool JavaScript programming course on YouTube. After watching the series myself I highly recommend these videos no matter what coding level you are at or programming language you are using.

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Bricks, Blocks, and Beyond

It's the New Year! First off, we have added 3D toy bricks as a new shape and background effect option for PlumeriaGIF so check it out! New features coming to PlumeriaSC 4.8 beta 2 include a new physics engine based on signed distance fields (SDF), instead of the usual Racasting. Also, the planet physics have always used SDFs but were missing features. Now that the entire physics engine uses SDFs all of the missing features can be added including bounce, drag, and friction. Finally, several other unannounced features added last year should make it easier to add updates and new games to our website this year.