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New Castle Tester – running all engine automatic tests on all platforms (desktop, mobile, Nintendo Switch…) with all compilers (FPC, Delphi)

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Castle Game Engine Automatic Tests

This screenshot will not win the #screenshotsaturday hashtag, but it took a lot of effort to achieve 🙂

Thanks to Andrzej Kilijański we have a big upgrade to our automatic tests application, available as always in tests/ subdirectory of CGE. Instead of using FpcUnit, the application can now use our own testing framework CastleTester that

  1. Is deliberately very compatible with FpcUnit (in fact, using some of its code).

  2. Tightly integrated with CGE, providing easy UI using CGE to run and display all tests results, and some extra utilities like CreateWindowForTest.

  3. Compiles and runs with both FPC and Delphi. All our tests now pass with both compilers. We made a number of fixes to Delphi support thanks to this (FPC support was being tested and flawless since a long time).

  4. Compiles and runs for all platforms we support. E.g. you can run the testsuite on Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch this way, by building the castle-tester for these platforms — just like any other CGE application.

As always, both Jenkins and GitHub Actions run all these tests automatically after every push. Jenkins even runs them with both FPC and Delphi 11.

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Creating Debian Packages with Castle Game Engine build tool

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cge+debian

Debian is a popular Linux distribution, also serving as a base for other Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu. You can now easily create a Debian package, .deb file, from any game!

  • From Castle Game Engine Editor use menu option Run -> Package Format -> Debian Package (DEB) and then Run -> Package.

  • Or use command-line build tool with --package-format=deb option. The full command may look like this:

    castle-engine package --package-format=deb --fast

To install the resulting package using command-line you can execute sudo apt install ./xxx.deb. Once installed, you can see it in all applications listing currently-installed packages (like Synaptic). You can remove the package using e.g. Synaptic or just sudo apt purge xxx.

While it will work out-of-the-box, to have a really good package you should make sure you filled some information in the project manifest:

  1. Be sure to specify the project author

  2. Specify an icon, in XPM or PNG formats.

  3. Specify sections, categories and comment to have the package and application look best.

This feature was mostly developed by Eugene Loza (thousand thanks!) with some additions from Michalis. It’s not a secret that we’re both using Debian OS as the main operating system and as such most of CGE was probably created on Debian or Debian-derivatives 🙂 So we’re very happy with this integration.

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Various asset improvements: Wavefront OBJ texture options and possible PBR, Spine free form deformation with curve animation, fixes for creaseAngle in X3D and OBJ

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Oak Wavefront OBJ model
Spine FFD animation test

Various improvements to various asset formats:

  • We now implement Wavefront OBJ texture options. They are all parsed correctly, and the scale, offset, clamp are actually handled.

    We can also generate PBR (physical) materials when reading Wavefront OBJ files. This feature is for now experimental, and you have to toggle global WavefrontPhongMaterial in X3DLoadInternalOBJ unit to false. In effect, we will create X3D PhysicalMaterial nodes from Wavefront materials, and we’ll use Pr for the PhysicalMaterial.MetallicRoughnessTexture. See the X3D specification of PhysicalMaterial for details what it implies.

  • We now support curve animation for Spine free form deformation. Thanks go to Kagamma (Trung Le) for implementing this!

    The testcase is in our demo-models, open spine/free_form_deformation/exported/skeleton.json and run head_curve animation.

  • Fixed important bug on all 3D models that could use automatic normals generation based on creaseAngle (like X3D and Wavefront OBJ by default).

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“The Unholy Society” release on Android and iOS

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The Unholy Society - NPC dialogue
The Unholy Society - woof
The Unholy Society - fight
The Unholy Society - tentacles
The Unholy Society - jerk
The Unholy Society - pope

We are proud to announce a mobile release of The Unholy Society, a game done by Cat-astrophe Games using Castle Game Engine!

The Unholy Society, the first part of a snarky exorcist’s adventures, is inspired by ’80s and ’90s movies, comic books, as well as everything else that fits into the categories of “iconic” and “pop culture”.

The story revolves around Bonaventura Horowitz – an exorcist who isn’t exactly an angel himself. At the request of the Pope, Bon, accompanied by a group of his peculiar friends, sets off on a thrilling mission, leaving behind a trail of cigarette butts, empty whiskey bottles, and broken demonic hearts.

The game is available on both Android (Google Play) and iOS (App Store). It is a free download, and you can play the prolog for free — afterwards you can purchase Act 1.

We hope for a great success on mobile, and we want to develop and publish further acts of the game. We have a cool story in the works.

P.S. If you’re a die-hard PC player, go ahead and grab the same game on Steam. Or on Nintendo Switch.

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