{"id":545,"date":"2018-04-11T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/?p=545"},"modified":"2018-04-11T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:51:41","slug":"connect4-new-android-game-using-castle-game-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/2018\/04\/11\/connect4-new-android-game-using-castle-game-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect4 &#8211; new Android game using Castle Game Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"thumbnails thumbnails-align-right\"><tr><td>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/connect4.png\"\n             class=\"screenshot\"\n             title=\"Connect4 screenshot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\n            style=\"float: right\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/connect4-200x355.png\"\n             width=\"200\" height=\"355\" \n            alt=\"Connect4 screenshot\"\n          ><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n<p>We&#8217;re proud to present <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=de.benediktmagnus.viergewinnt.app\">Connect4<\/a>, a free game for Android published by <i>Benedikt Magnus<\/i> and <i>LanIstAn<\/i> today!<\/p>\n<p>The game is using <em>Castle Game Engine<\/em>, with our 2D user-interface rendering, and includes music, localization (English, Polish, German, Spain), and networking support. You can plan against a computer, or against a friend over the network. I believe this is the first game with networked play done using CGE.<\/p>\n<p>I really like this part of developing <em>Castle Game Engine<\/em> &#8212; seeing how others are using it to create the coolest things. Congratulations and thank you!<\/p>\n<p>We also have a ton of new features added to <em>Castle Game Engine<\/em> lately. In particular, thanks to <i>Benedikt Magnus<\/i> we now have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl\/cge-www-preview\/apidoc\/html\/CastleClientServer.html\">cross-platform support for networking using TCP<\/a>,\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/castle-engine\/castle-engine\/wiki\/Android-Project-Services-Integrated-with-Castle-Game-Engine#freetype\">FreeType library available on Android<\/a>, and\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/castle-engine\/castle-engine\/pull\/92\">we will have a custom localization system<\/a> (in addition to being able to just <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/castle-engine\/castle-engine\/tree\/master\/examples\/localization\">use GetText for localization<\/a>).\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thousand thanks!<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll be posting more about the new CGE features later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re proud to present Connect4, a free game for Android published by Benedikt Magnus and LanIstAn today! The game is using Castle Game Engine, with our 2D user-interface rendering, and includes music, localization (English, Polish, German, Spain), and networking support. You can plan against a computer, or against a friend over the network. I believe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/2018\/04\/11\/connect4-new-android-game-using-castle-game-engine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading  \u27a4<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Connect4 &#8211; new Android game using Castle Game Engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/connect4.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IgYW-8N","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castle-engine.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}