Beta 3 will add a lot of new features to Frontend 2.0, this list is a sneak-peek:
- Added support for automatic reloading of resources - Edit a resource, save it and see the result instantly while your game/demo is running!
- New API components:
- Frontend::Net - Socket API wrapper.
- Frontend::Math - Math functions, Vector and Matrix classes moved here.
- Frontend::IO - Stream, stdio and file system abstractions.
- Major cleanup - Some last large changes to make Frontend cleaner and easier to use (breaks some backward compatibility, hopefully for the last time).
- Video tutorials - Step by step video tutorials will be made and released as soon as possible after launch.
The Frontend team has been working on a game entry for the Norwegian Game Awards for the last couple of months, and on March 9th we were declared winner of the competition :) The game was written entirely against Frontend 2.0, and was a good practical test for the OpenFrontend implementation. The process revealed and fixed a lot of bugs and performance issues. The implementation is getting better every day :)
The results of months of debugging and refining will be released to the public in Beta 3 on June 15th 2008.
This summer we will also be working on the tutorials and documentation to make it easier to get started. As we are mostly students you’ll have to wait until we are done with our spring exams ;)
Thanks for your support. Visit #frontend on EFnet for a chat.
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