Entities

Entities are a basic element of the Mage Game Engine (MGE).

• All animated graphics must be entities, as ordinary map tiles cannot change appearance or move.
• Any single tile object placed in one of a map's object layers will be one of the three entity types, automatically determined by the type of tile being placed.
• All entities have all the same entity properties available to them (visible as a pair of rows on the hex editor in the game — 32 bytes total). They will all therefore have an on_interact and on_tick script slot, various render flags, etc.
  • These properties are defined when placed in a Tiled map, but they can be modified during gameplay with script actions or by the player via the hex editor.
• Entities need not have a name, nor a unique name. Scripts targeting an entity by name will simply use the first the encoder found with that name.
• All entity state (apart from the player's name) is reset when a map load occurs.