Create the basics of the game

The basics of a Salty Engine game

Info this page is only applicable for Salty Engine >= 0.14.8-SNAPSHOT. The main class of the game will extend de.edgelord.saltyengine.core.Game.

For initializing your game, you can call Game#init(GameConfig).

package de.edgelord.saltyengine.example;

import de.edgelord.saltyengine.core.Game;

/**
 * This is an example for the main class of a game.
 */
public class ExampleMain extends Game {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // The arguments for the used method GameConfig#config are:
        // 1. float resWidth, which is the width of the resolution of the game and the starting width of the window. You should take something 
        //                    like 1920 and not 16, because all placing of objects in the world depends on that number
        // 2. float resHeight, which is the height of the resolution of the game and the starting height of the window. You should take something 
        //                    like 1080 and not 9, because all placing of objects in the world depends on that number
        // 3. String gameName, the name of the game. The window title and the save-file-folders depends on that
        // 4. long fixedTickMillis, the milliseconds for the periodically physics calculations etc. Values from 1 - 10 are fine, the lower the 
        //                          number, the better is the performance of the game.
        // You could also use the constrcutor of the class GameConfig
        init(GameConfig.config(1920, 1080, "Salty Engine Example Game", 5));
    }
}

The only thing left to do is to call Game.start().

The main method could look like this (also from ExampleMain):

public static void main(String[] args) {
        init(GameConfig.config(1920, 1080, "Salty Engine Example Game", 5));
        Game.start();
}

The whole class now looks like this:

package de.edgelord.saltyengine.example;

import de.edgelord.saltyengine.core.Game;
import de.edgelord.saltyengine.core.GameConfig;

/**
 * This is an example for the main class of a game.
 */
public class ExampleMain extends Game {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        init(GameConfig.config(1920, 1080, "Salty Engine Example Game", 5));
        Game.start();
    }
}

If you now run this, a window with the given size should appear in the middle of the Screen. It is currently completely empty and white. Currently...