{"id":8635,"date":"2012-06-21T21:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/?p=8635"},"modified":"2012-06-21T21:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T21:23:33","slug":"introducing-gladius-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2012\/06\/introducing-gladius-0-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Gladius 0.2"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Physics<\/a>Today we are proud to release the next version of our open-source Javascript game engine, Gladius<\/a> 0.2. For this release, we focused on making the API more intuitive and improving modularity.<\/div>\n
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The driving goal for these changes is to make it easy for developers to customize the engine for their projects and to share their own engine plug-ins with the Gladius community.<\/div>\n
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Community-driven<\/h2>\n
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Gladius is an experimental, community-driven Mozilla project, and seeing more people join is a great source of energy and motivation for us. For example, Chris Strom<\/a> jumped into Gladius<\/a> a few weeks ago\u00a0 and has been writing a great blog series about his experiences. Chris is helping us identify areas for improvement in the API and spurred us to fix up some outdated documentation to make it easier for new developers to start using the engine. We also have an awesome start on high-level documentation<\/a> for Gladius thanks to Michael Kelly<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Engine plug-in support, updated documentation and more<\/h2>\n
The biggest update you’ll notice in this release is support for engine plug-ins through a new extension framework. It’s now much easier to add new functionality to the engine by writing an extension yourself, or by loading an existing extension from github or the Web.<\/div>\n
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We’ve also updated READMEs and new examples that will help you get started with Gladius. They demonstrate how to load the engine and illustrate functionality in the default extensions. The default extensions, along with all the examples, are available here<\/a>. See the examples in action in our new gallery<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Get involved<\/h2>\n
We would love for you to help with Gladius by trying it out yourself or by helping to build out the project.\u00a0We’re available in #games on irc.mozilla.org<\/a> to help you get started, and we’re especially keen to feature more community work in the gallery<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Some specific areas where you can get involved:<\/div>\n
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