MegaStorm Systems

EditorDPF

Resource manager for creating and modifying images, tiles, sprites, fonts, buttons, sounds and configuration files such as INI and XML. It is an easy-to-use Windows MFC application intended to let non-programmers update game resources.

SetupProject

Custom configuration system for creating project-specific setup tools in a few steps without writing code.

MSTE

Tile-based scrolling engine for 2D games. It supports maps created with Tiled Qt 0.81+.

Reference Guide

Offline and online documentation packages are available, alongside tutorials and examples for the C32 API.

General

• Developed in C++ with optimized critical paths using x86 ASM with MMX/SSE.
• High-level API with the core functionality needed to develop 2D games.
• Clean, efficient structure designed for portable game development.
• Available as a dynamic library, with a static library for Win32 debugging.
• The ABI is kept stable so applications can receive bug fixes and performance improvements by replacing older library builds.
• Can also be used from environments such as Java, Visual Basic and Delphi, although those integrations were not officially tested.

Main Modules

• Logging and profiling systems.
• Proprietary data package with optional security enhancements for graphics, sounds, fonts and other resources.
• Methods for detecting executable modification.
• Independent timing control for rendering and logic rates.
• Fast customizable initialization system.
• Improved pseudo-random number generator and CRC32 helpers.
• XML parser for external XML files and embedded package data.

Video and Graphics

• OpenGL acceleration for 2D blitting, with software rendering modes available.
• Proprietary image format with native BMP import/export; EditorDPF supports PNG and BMP.
• Scaled and rotated surfaces with an optional smooth filter.
• Flexible font system and graphic primitives for points, lines and rectangles.
• 11 surface effects including grayscale, fades, negative, noise, blur, gamma correction, wind and waves.
• GUI system with mouse and cursor control plus fast multilayer button support.
• Optimized surface collision, tiles with alpha/colorkey/RLE support, sprite states and smooth movement interpolation.
• MPEG-1 video playback with optional real-time effects.

Sound and Music

• Audio system with mono, stereo and multichannel support.
• Sound effects and independent sound/music channels.
• Supported formats include WAV, AIFF, VOC, OGG, XM, MOD, IT and S3M.

Networking

• TCP/IP client/server architecture.
• Server can run standalone or inside a client application.
• Non-authoritative and authoritative server modes.
• Up to 16 clients with optional password login.
• Secure transmission layer to reduce exposed information and tampering risk.
• Stable logging for debugging networked applications.

Platform and SDL modules

• SDL 1.2.15
• SDL_net 1.2.8
• SDL_mixer 1.2.12

Data, archives and utilities

• UCL 1.03
• TinyXML 2.6.2
• Mersenne Twister

Audio formats

• LibVorbis 1.3.2
• LibOgg 1.3.0
• MikMod 3.1.12

Video

• SMPEG 0.4.5 CVS