Echo 3 is in early development. It is not ready for projects. =Differences to Echo 2= Echo 3 is Echo 2 significantly refactored. Most of the base concepts remain the same but: - Things are now better scoped, we get rid of the E prefix everywhere and use namespaces instead, - Classes and methods are more well defined, - There is more consideration to menu management - Better thread safety, including generic asynchronous work posting to other threads. - Kernel improvements - No more singletons - Reduced complexity =Additional benefits improvements= - Automated tests - Porting test suite, to test that your port adheres to the interface contracts. Echo 3 systems - Platform -- Physical information --- Display ---- Supports full screen ---- Supports widowed mode ---- Is touch display --- Vibrate --- Sensors ---- Gyro ---- Accelerometer ---- GPS - Data storage - Sensors - Networking - Time - User input - Localisation - Audio - Graphics -- Shader driven -- Fixed pipeline - Execution environment -- Minimal -- Kernel - Platform game services interface -- [[https://partner.steamgames.com/|Steam]] -- [[https://developers.google.com/games/services/|Google Play games]] also [[https://developers.google.com/games/services/ios/quickstart|works with iOS]] -- [[https://developer.apple.com/game-center/|Apple Game Center]] =Graphics= dot {{{ digraph A { fontname = "Bitstream Vera Sans" fontsize = 8 node [ fontname = "Bitstream Vera Sans" fontsize = 8 shape = "record" ] edge [ fontname = "Bitstream Vera Sans" fontsize = 8 ] RenderTarget [ label = "{RenderTarget||}"] Scene [ label = "{Scene||}"] edge [ arrowhead = "none" arrowtail = "empty" dir = "back" headlabel = "" taillabel = "" ] edge [ arrowhead = "none" arrowtail = "empty" dir = "" headlabel = "" taillabel = "1..*" ] Scene -> RenderTarget } }}}

Echo 3 is in early development. Echo 3 systems - Platform -- Physical information --- Display ---- Supports full screen ---- Supports widowed mode ---- Is touch display --- Vibrate --- Sensors ---- Gyro ---- Accelerometer ---- GPS - Data storage - Sensors - Networking - Time - User input - Localisation - Audio - Graphics -- Shader driven -- Fixed pipeline - Execution environment -- Minimal -- Kernel - Platform game services interface -- [[https://partner.steamgames.com/|Steam]] -- [[https://developers.google.com/games/services/|Google Play games]] also [[https://developers.google.com/games/services/ios/quickstart|works with iOS]] -- [[https://developer.apple.com/game-center/|Apple Game Center]]

Echo 3 is in early development. It is not ready for projects. =Differences to Echo 2= Echo 3 is Echo 2 significantly refactored. Most of the base concepts remain the same but: - Things are now better scoped, we get rid of the E prefix everywhere and use namespaces instead, - Classes and methods are more well defined, - There is more consideration to menu management - Better thread safety, including generic asynchronous work posting to other threads. - Kernel improvements - No more singletons - Reduced complexity =Additional benefits improvements= - Automated tests - Porting test suite, to test that your port adheres to the interface contracts. Echo 3 systems - Platform -- Physical information --- Display ---- Supports full screen ---- Supports widowed mode ---- Is touch display --- Vibrate --- Sensors ---- Gyro ---- Accelerometer ---- GPS - Data storage - Sensors - Networking - Time - User input - Localisation - Audio - Graphics -- Shader driven -- Fixed pipeline - Execution environment -- Minimal -- Kernel - Platform game services interface -- [[https://partner.steamgames.com/|Steam]] -- [[https://developers.google.com/games/services/|Google Play games]] also [[https://developers.google.com/games/services/ios/quickstart|works with iOS]] -- [[https://developer.apple.com/game-center/|Apple Game Center]] =Graphics= dot {{{ digraph A { fontname = "Bitstream Vera Sans" fontsize = 8 node [ fontname = "Bitstream Vera Sans" fontsize = 8 shape = "record" ] edge [ fontname = "Bitstream Vera Sans" fontsize = 8 ] RenderTarget [ label = "{RenderTarget||}"] Scene [ label = "{Scene||}"] edge [ arrowhead = "none" arrowtail = "empty" dir = "back" headlabel = "" taillabel = "" ] edge [ arrowhead = "none" arrowtail = "empty" dir = "" headlabel = "" taillabel = "1..*" ] Scene -> RenderTarget } }}}