erebor engine devlog

🥳 Feature complete: everything about displaying text and labels is finished

I've been more or less ignoring the text-rendering part of the project ever since we got to "can display an FPS counter" since throughout development that's all I needed. I have finally caught up and finished everything that I had planned related to displaying text inside a game.

Experimental: Modeling entity relations

has_many, has_one, belongs_to...

🥳 New feature: entity class composition with reusable component sets

I added the new extends keyword to the EntityBuilder DSL because a lot of entities start out with the same handful of components, and repeating all of this boilerplate in each new entity definition can end up obscuring all the interesting stuff that makes each one of those entities different.

New feature: Render Layers

Now it's much easier to manage the z-order position when rendering multiple entity outputs. For example:

Mouse input is now feature complete

Mouse input is now fully implemented, with an updated and simpler to to use API