• Core : now pass the elapsed time as a parameter when calling any object update function
• Core : cleaned-up/renamed conflicting set function in shape and font objects
• Core : added new shapes objects (Ellipse, Polygon) on top of the existing Rectangle one
• Core : added a mixing property to object (insidiator)
• Core : deprecated object manipulation (add, remove) have been removed from me.game
• Core : renamed the me.entityPool API to me.pool and related functions (see documentation & upgrade guide)
• Entity : deprecated helper function (doJump, doWalk) have been removed
• ObjectContainer : renamed getEntityByProp to getChildByProp
• ObjectContainer : getChildByProp now returns all matching object type and not only "entities"
• Camera : camera bounds are now defined as a rectangle and not only in width and height
• Loader : added resource information to loader progress event (warpten)
• Loader : added loading of TMX data from javascript (json) objects (paulmedwal)
• Color : melonJS now defines a new me.Color class for advanced color manipulation
• Particles : added basic Particle System, with emitters and particles (ciangames/insidiator)
• Particles : added a particle emmiter editor, see the example folder (insidiator)
• Device : added full cross-browser support for the Fullscreen API (see me.device)
• Device : added support for the vibration API (me.device.vibrate)
• Device : renamed the me.save.delete function to me.save.removed (delete is a reserved keyword)
• Device : added support for the visibilitychange API (pause/stop state on window show/hidden status)
• Audio : modernised (and also mobile compatible) web audio API based on the awesome Howler library
• Input : added the possibility to disable globally or per key the default browser action
• Input : automatically enable keyboard even on desktop type devices
• Input : the registerPointerEvent functio now only accepts the standardized Pointer Event names.
• TMX : added proper support for all shape type (collision is still however resolved using AABB detection)
• TMX : XML TMX map are now converted to a JXON object on-the-fly, allowing to remove duplicated parsing code
• TMX : added the Tiled "type" property to TMXObject
• TMX : melonJS will now respect the object size as defined in Tiled when parsing/creating related object in the game world
• Timer : added a setTimeout and setIntveral function obeying the engine pause state
• Tween : Fixed tweens to properly maintain time state when paused
• Renderable : collisionBox has been replaced by a more cleaner implementation (see getShape/addShape/getBounds)
• Renderable : the flicker function now takes the global flickering duration in ms (as opposed in frame count)
• Renderable : removed the visible property