State of KAPLAY #2

lajbel, September 2, 2024

Hey! Welcome to State of KAPLAY in their second edition. Quite some time passed between the previous state and this one. From now all States of KAPLAY will be published on the 2nd of every month. Time to start with the news.

When will the next version of KAPLAY be Released?

We are working on two versions currently, v4000 will be the release with most features, breaking changes and best improvements, while v3001 is the most compatible version with Kaboom.js and also previous tutorials will work with this version.

Releasing dates

We got some dates, but we can tell you that the beta of v3001 will be out on September 7th, the World Beard day. This is the first step to have our first stable version, while v4000 is getting the most awaited features.

KAPLAY Crew: Our wiki

We released the KAPLAY Crew, which our portal of assets, characters and all related to the KAWord (KAPLAY World). It works as an assets browser (if you want to download them) and also as a wiki for our lore lovers.

KAPLAY New features

There’s a bunch of new KAPLAY Features, if not specified, all features work for v3001 and v4000

• New API Fake cursor, to simulate behavior of a cursor in a game object
• Color and Vec2 helpers helpers, Color.toArray(), Vec2.toArray, Vec2.fromArray
• Choice the button in onClick("left")
• lifespan() now requires opacity() explicitly
• Many bugs in components fixed like stay()
• fixedDt, fixedUpdate and in general a rework on physics frame handling
• Fixes some shapes and drawing functions like text, eclipses, etc
• Mouse delta positon
• Optimized collisions to only happen when needed
• Now error screen can be thrown from an input event
• Much much bug fixes, literally a lot I can’t put all them

Community Highlights

From now, thanks to all our contributors! All the mentions are on our changelogs in the repository. Now we will highlight some of the new games and videos made by the community.

Games

Clickery Hexagon by AmySpark is a simple game where you need to click a hexagon. We published the trailer on our YouTube Channel.

Sonic Ring Run by JSLegendDev is a Sonic-like game where you need to collect rings and jump. It comes with a great tutorial

Tutorials

In this tutorial, JSLegendDev present us a crash course on KAPLAY

Also, if you don’t know JavaScript, JSLegendDev also did a basic JavaScript tutorial.

Message from developers

Thanks to all the community for the support, we are working hard to improve KAPLAY

— lajbel

If anything breaks, please file an issue

— MF