Orx - Portable Game Engine version 1.12 has been released

The Orx community is pleased to announce the 1.12 release. This marks the 12th yearly major release since 1.0 in 2009. Some highlights include:

• Major speed & scalability improvements: from 65k to 16M concurrent objects in memory, a complete rewrite of the orxBANK module, object update re-write, added support for early exit events handling
• Support for joysticks on Android-Native
• A simpler Android build pipeline (can be entirely built from inside Android Studio without the manual NDK build step)
• Added color literals for all HTML web colors. Can be used for Object, Graphic & FX Color values
• Added Nuklear support for new projects with the init project maker tool
• Support for writing JPEG images
• Many smaller fixes/optimizations/improvements.

The complete list of changes is here: https://github.com/orx/orx/blob/master/CHANGELOG.​

You can download the 1.12 release here: https://github.com/orx/orx/releases/tag/1.12. The up to date development version is located at: https://github.com/orx/orx​

Video Tutorials

Since 1.11, the community have been adding videos to demonstrate some advanced game development problems and how to solve them using Orx. The current available set:

• Seamless Screen Edge Teleportation
• Animation Synchronization​
• Data-Driven Scene Transitions​
• Instantly Aged Objects

Read more at the Orx website or chat with the community at: Orx Discord.