Crystal Rift - a dart 2D game engine

An HTML5 2D game engine using dart and canvas. Movements and interactions are like Zelda.

Game live demo here Editor live demo here

What is working?

• Character movement in 4 directions. (W,A,S,D)
• Camera following main character.
• Character collission detection.
• Pushable elements.
• Buildings, characters, items and decorations are loaded dinamically using json files.
• Map tilesets, each tile can have a different graphic and collision rule.
• Character to character interaction. (Enter)
• Actions handling. (On-screen text, framed-animations)
• Particle effects like fire, poison, smoke.
• Text boxes for long texts. (Enter to skip)
• Basic particles and animations.
• Character pathfinding.
• Very basic action battle system.

Additional Utils in the repository

• Tile selector utility, click on any tile of the tileset to retrieve the x,y coordinates.
• Map editor.

Working locally

This requires the dart tools installed in the machine and (webdev enabled)[https://dart.dev/tools/webdev#build].

Debug in Chrome (Dart)

webdev serve web

And open the URL, using the absolute path to the file you want to test, such as http://localhost:8080/gameengine.html.

Build / Compile to JS

To compile to javascript and run in any browser:

webdev build --output web:build

And open the URL, using the absolute path to the file you want to test, such as http://localhost:9099/gameengine.html.

TO-DO

• Camera movement with main character Buggy!
• Different maps handling
• Character special actions (Jump, teleport, flip?)
• Lots of things...Dropable items, Battles, Menus.
• Finish the map editor.
• Try to enable multithread processing to improve performance.

Want to help?

Do you think you can do something better or improve the existing?

Go ahead! Any help is greatly appreciated.