Arc 0.2

Clay Smith has announced version 0.2 of the Arc 2D game library. From the NG:

1) Basic GUI System (v.3 planned full fledged GUI system)

2) 2D Physics System with shapes Box and Circle (v.3 planned polygons)

3) 2D Scene-graph System

4) Updated Sound System to use OpenAL with code generously donated from
Eric Poggel who’s working on the Yage project on dsource

5) Hidden resource management system

6) Updated font system to h3r3tic’s font system

7) Joystick support patched by Lutger (Thanks!)

All these random closed tickets and miscellaneous bug fixes http://www.dsource.org/projects/arclib/report/6

Arc is set up to work out of the box with DSSS. Clay also posted instructions on how to do so:

You can grab Arc v.2 release with this DSSS command:

dsss net install arclib

You can grab arc unittest and the example asteroids game with the DSSS
command:

dsss net install arclib-unittest

dsss net install arclib-examples

DSSS will also grab all the media files that correspond to the programs
and put them appropriately in the DSSS BIN folder. On windows, it will
grab all the files you need including dll’s and then you can simply
click the programs and watch them run.

I’m not a DSSS user myself, but all of that certainly makes it sound somewhat appealing. Give feedback  on and look for help with Arc in #arclib or the project forums.

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