Particle Engine

I didn't find much time for programming lately, because I have too many other hobbies right now. First I joined a political party and the election in Germany isn't far away, so I spend much time on supporting our campaign. And then I decided to get a sailing license this summer. So I haven't got much time left.

Nevertheless I had nothing to do this Sunday afternoon and got around implementing a particle engine.

I like programming particle engines. A particle engine was my first and most major contribution to The Mana World. My first thought was porting the TMW particle engine to Javascript as-is (just using JSON instead of XML for particle definitions), but then I decided that a different architecture is much more suitable for JS. Instead of defining the physical properties of each particle type in an XML file (or rather JSON), I decided to implement the physical behavior of each type with a function.