Don't let me tease too long. Below is the almost complete home page and identity of the Laboratory2D game tech.

What is left?

There are quite a few minor things to tweak here and there, some weird things in the design, some tech issues.

More specifically the beta / testers / builders / accounts and their functionality. The build system will be tied into this front end, along with the rest of the back end stuff, documentation and samples. Once i have all these finished i will be launching the site, not making a big splash for now - as the site is for the next bunch of good news. 

Guest blogs

Firstly, i posted a link to a mailing list for a particular piece of my tech puzzle, and got a really good response. Good enough for a guest blog on their main page, which is a huge deal for me. In preparing for that, i want the home page to be up with all the information, links and details you would expect, including downloads and status tracking etc. 

That means that i need to get it up as soon as i can, i would really like the engine to make the impression i have designed it for and I am hoping that the posts will be a good step in getting people to know the reasons for this stuff in the first place.

How the accounts work at the moment

As everyone who knows the details knows - the site uses tracking and remembering for a number of things. I have now implemented using Google Accounts and Twitter sign in to ease that process. Most times, you are one click away from being a registered user and enjoy the benefits without yet another login to remember. The one benefit of this is that it makes it a lot easier to manage for everyone - especially us.

New features

Wow, i think this list would be way too much to post in one go. I will more likely post each sample as i finish it here, along with the features it introduced. 

Everything from 100% automated tilemaps (including collision, box2D support, trigger events or callbacks) - all in a single line of code - right up to full physics support for box2D 2.1a and more.

Support for Bison Kick http://jacobschatz.com/?p=500 importing, much cleaner api's, documentation and samples.

Currently on a nice 16 examples the list is only growing. Look out for a full feature post when the site goes live :)