Rune (SDK) is a free, object-oriented framework (inspired by Adobe Flash / Adobe AIR) for creating raster-based, two-dimensional applications and/or games using JavaScript. It is primarily developed to be executed within Electron.
For more information, see the full reference manual.
Rune's source code is structured as follows:
- bin: Runs from "binary".
- bin-debug: Runs from source code.
- demo: Test application.
- dist: The latest compiled version of Rune.
- scripts: Build scripts
- src: Source code.
For example, Rune offers support for the following features:
- Flash-like (flash.*) API: If you liked Flash (as3), you will love Rune.
- Sprite animation: Blitting inspired sprite animation via texture atlases.
- Tweening: Interpolation based animation.
- Tilemap: Grid-based environments.
- Cameras: Dynamic camera system with split screen support.
- Audio: Support for sound and music via multiple audio channels.
- Input: Support for keyboards and gamepads (1-4 players).
- Text: Bitmap-based text fields.
- Hitbox: Rectangle-based (automated) collision system via dynamic hitboxes.
- Highscores: local highscore tables.
- Physics: Simple, but existing physics.
- Pathfinding: A* based pathfinding via Rune's tilemap system.
- Display-list: Hierarchical rendering of graphical parent and child objects.
The easiest way to get started with Rune is to download Rune-tools; a command line interface (CLI) tool for creating and managing Rune-based projects.
With rune-tools installed, the following command can be used to create a new and executable Rune application, based on the standardized template:
$ rune-tools create -a "MyApp" -d "com.vectorpanic" -b "0.0.0"The sample code creates a new project directory for the application MyApp from developer com.vectorpanic with version number 0.0.0.