Game Starter Kit For Torque X 2D

I recently got iTGB so I can start making iPhone games, if you have not tried objective C its worth it just to feel the smugness come through even in code. I have been using TorqueX for XNA and was pretty impressed with how well it streamlined the process.

Learning iTGB I was impressed with the library of included behaviors that made the process quick and easy to get a decent prototype up and running in no time. I had a bit of a library of TX2D components from my experiments and thought it would be great to have a similar toolkit, besides making it easier for me to move stuff to the iPhone. So here is my first pass at a game starter kit for TX2D. I basically cloned some of the behaviors from TGB for TX2D.

You can grab the files and get started, I have written some documentation at the top of each file that describes in some sense how it works. You can also read on where I will try and do a better job of documenting.

I have split the files into three folders, three different types of components. AI: Basic enemy stuff, Gameplay: Stuff that makes games, Input: stuff to control your player.

AI: This is all stuff for your targets, your enemies, or other things that are not under player control.
ai_DirectVelocity: The object will move at a speed in a straight line, you can also rotate the way the object faces so that it doesnt have to move in the direction it's facing.
ai_FaceObject: The object will rotate at a set speed to face a named object, like the player, maybe to watch you or possibly shoot you.
ai_MoveTowards: Moves towards a named object, like the player, see where we are going with this?
ai_RandomVelocity: This is a cool one, I used it in the asteroids demo. Variable range of direction, speed and rotation. I am certain you will come up with other uses for this one.
ai_SpawnArea: Drag a blank scene object onto the screen, add this component and it becomes a configurable spawn machine. It can spawn stuff from the center, randomly anywhere within the area, from the edges, from one edge.
ai_SpawnOnRemove: When the object is killed or whatever it will spawn a number of other objects, or even a clone of itself if you are so inclined. Blow up the spaceship and it can spawn a number of escape pods, lots of cool stuff. This one taught me that _OnUnregister is called when you unload a scene. If you look at the code you can see how I got around that issue.
ai_TimerShoots: The object will shoot repeatedly based on a timer, with a variance tossed in for fun.

Input: There is so much more you can do than just use the default movement component. I have also added a checkbox to automatically attach the camera to the player, plus added shooting controls.
in_AlignToMovement: Pretty much your standard steer with the stick and the object goes where you are pointing movement.
in_AsteroidsControls: Stick left and right rotates the player, forward and back accelerates forward and backward. Like Asteroids, get it?
in_ShooterControls: Move your player around without rotation, like the old school shooters.
in_TankControls: Asteroids controls without the constant acceleration. Let go of the control and the player stops.

GamePlay: These are necessary for game play, I'd advise against removing them. I have a static random that is used by other components, as well as other delegates used by the components.
gp_DealsDamage: The object will damage whatever it hits, like for a bullet or missile.
gp_TakesDamage: The object takes damage when hit by a damage dealing object.
miscDelegates: The damage dealing delegate lives here, I have also added a delegate to to do world limit wrapping. This also contains the random function I use everywhere else, don't remove this file.
gp_PlayerComponent: This is the component that would have controlled the game, I was debating putting it in here as it's not really finished. But its a start, based on Space Warrior game.

I have also included 3 simple examples, that you can pick apart to see how the components are used. Pay attention to collisions, if your bullet collides with your gun, you will have problems. I also really don't use much error checking, because I don't make errors (heh yea) I have also made the back button on the gamepad exit the demo to the menu. I am betting that I am not doing it right and this will cause problems if you do it the same way. Mostly I don't remove the input map but then it gets re assigned anyway, maybe it is alright. I am certain someone will correct me on this... O.o

I'll try to add to this sometime in the future, as well as I wanted to create the demos that will work with the CC version, as it stands right now it won't. However if you start a project from scratch, drag the GameKit folder to your project and you can use it with the CC version of TX.

Torque X 2D Game Kit for 3.1.5

Have fun and I look at the forums almost every day if you want to get in touch.

Quick Edit: I got the version that works with the XNA CC torque included.