Happy Holidays!
Hi! We had setup a subreddit for Superpowers help but it's not very convenient so we're in the process of setting up new forums right here on itch.io community, they'll go live pretty soon :) In the meantime, I can answer your question right here.
So just to give some context, actors are made of a few things:
In order to attach some state and/or logic to an actor, you can use a behavior, which is a type of component (there are other types too, like a sprite renderer to name one).
// First we declare a new behavior class. // It can be used on any number of actors
class MyCustomBehavior extends Sup.Behavior { health = 100; takeDamage(amount) { this.health -= amount; } } Sup.registerBehavior(MyCustomBehavior); // Then we create an actor let actor = new Sup.Actor("Test 1"); // And we attach an instance of our behavior class to it
actor.addBehavior(MyCustomBehavior);
// Later on, if we want to access the health member variable on the behavior, we can write: Sup.log(actor.getBehavior(MyCustomBehavior).health);
// And we can call methods on the behavior like so: actor.getBehavior(MyCustomBehavior).takeDamage(5);
As you can see, using "someActor.getBehavior" is useful when your global initialization code needs to call methods or access member variables on a particular behavior. It is also useful if you have one behavior that needs to act on another actor's behavior, for instance, when an enemy hits a player, or vice versa.
We should probably add such an example to the documentation at docs.sparklinlabs.com/en/getting-started/variables...
Ok, if I'm understanding this right, to get a behavior it must be printed to superpowers log using Sup.Log(<value retrieved somewhere stored>) which can be an actor so Sup.log(<ActiorName>.getBehavior(<BehaviorName>).<VariableName>); and lets say I wanted to run update tests against this value or another value (like its position overlapping a damaging tile) I would run positional checks in code against the Superpowers Actor class (Sup.Actor which I created as "Test1" for instance) and then in a if conditional
if Sup.log(Sup.log(actor.getBehavior(MyCustomBehavior).CustomX) == Sup.log(Sup.log(EnemyActor?.getBehavior(MyCustomBehavior).CustomX) // Can the engine differentiate collisions and run these functions from each object?
{
let tempVar = Sup.log(actor.getBehavior(MyCustomBehavior).health);
actor.getBehavior().<custom_method>(param0, etc);
//Define method here>>>>>>???
//Or is the method a script that is loaded before this is run or after?
}
sorry for the newbie questions, Ive been learning programming but working with pre-built engine environments is just as confusing to me sometimes but is usually far less work which is why I am trying to learn to use everything I can. For instance game maker/unity work alot like this but still sometime confuses me.
No, you don't need to use Sup.log! It was an example, to show how to do something concrete after getting a behavior (in this case, Sup.log displays a member variable's value in the browser's development tools, but you could be doing any number of things instead).
If you haven't already, looking at some of the demo projects might help: http://docs.sparklinlabs.com/en/resources/demo-pro... and https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/profile/reposit...
Regarding collisions, there is a built-in axis-aligned bounding box collision system called ArcadePhysics2D. You can find a tutorial here: http://docs.sparklinlabs.com/en/tutorials/collisio...
Things have been a bit quiet with the holidays, but we're back. There is code to write, trailers to make and bugs to fix!
I've been writing some documentation for systems and plugins development and I realized we should make sure that things aren't going to change too much once we start supporting other engines.
So I spent some time building a basic LÖVE system for Superpowers. What is LÖVE? 🎵It is a sweet 2D Lua game framework. Its 0.10 release was just announced with mobile support!
I reused the media importer I wrote for Superpowers Web earlier this month and turned the Jade editor into a Lua editor. Pretty straightforward! The main challenge was getting the games to run. I added a button on first run to ask where the LÖVE executable is located:
Once LÖVE has been found, the system's runtime simply downloads all the assets, puts them in a temporary folder and points LÖVE to it. Here's a GIF showing a tutorial game I found online and manually imported into Superpowers:
Pretty cool? :) We've put the source code for the Superpowers LÖVE system on GitHub right away. Enjoy!
Hey y'all!
Just a quick word to remind you we're just over a day away from Superpowers's first open source release!!
Alright, back to work! See you VERY soon 
Holy moly. It's happening in less than 10 hours!
We'll be live at hitbox.tv/SparklinLabs to press the big red button, demo it all, launch our Patreon, talk about contributing and future plans. We'll be speaking in French but we'll have slides in English and we've got some people on call to translate it all for you in the chat.
See you then! Can't. wait. ♥
I am trying Superpowsers, but I haven't found any documentation on how to build/run the desktop app. I have Electron installed but I don't know what I need to do to run Superpowers with Electron.
I really like it so far, and I hope I will be able to contribute (even though I have no experience with TypeScript, but this is the perfect occasion to learn :P)
Hey! See Letting others join your server in the docs: http://docs.superpowers-html5.com/en/getting-start...
Make sure to check out This Week in Superpowers #2 and This Week in Superpowers #3 for the latest development and community news. Loooots of stuff has happened.
Last week end, we took part in the Global Game Jam and made Lumberjack Jacques and the Ritual of Doom.
Also, we've posted our first Secret Supporter Update on Patreon, featuring a sneak peek at our next game! :D
It's been a year and a half since the three of us started working on Superpowers. Thanks to generous support from the community on Patreon and during early access on Gumroad, we've been able to do it full-time so far. But with our current financial situation, we can't afford to keep going like that for much longer.
So we've been looking for work on the side, in order to continue this awesome beast of a project... and, well, good news! Bilou and I have found long-term gigs and Pixel-boy will be doing some contract work soon.
What does that mean? Well, we'll definitely have less time to spend on Superpowers every week. Buuuuut! now we don't have to worry so much about making rent every month, and it's remote work with a pretty flexible schedule so, short of being paid to work on Superpowers itself full-time, it's the best outcome we could hope for!
We'll do our very best to keep earning your support by releasing more cool open source stuff! On top of our ongoing work on Superpowers, we're recently open sourced, migrated to GitHub and/or improved:
Check out the latest edition of This Week in Superpowers for info about the next release and why we haven't pushed out a v0.20 yet.
Talk to you soon! ♥
