Surge Engine for Sonic-like platformers gets improved gamepad support and a new audio system

Love classic Sonic games and other similar platformers? The Surge Engine and the included Surge the Rabbit game are great open source projects. They give you a fully free and open source platform to play retro-styled Sonic-like games, along with learning how to build you own - it's worth taking a look.

A new release of the Open Surge Engine was released recently with version 0.6.1.3 now available with some big improvements to it. The main changes included:

• Auto-detect gamepad layouts for consistent cross-platform behavior
• Introduced a more sophisticated architecture for the Audio System
• Prevent the underwater muffler from altering the drowning music
• Changed the formula of the underwater muffler
• Pause or resume all audio when pausing or resuming the game
• Improved the Pipe System and made it re-entrant
• Improved the Title Card script
• Prevent collected Life Powerups from respawning when restarting the level
• Surge the Rabbit: introduced Game State and Consumable Entities
• New translations: Ukrainian, Lithuanian
• Options Screen: added compatibility with specific versions of the engine
• Level Editor: redesigned the Grid System
• Windows: made the window display the icon of the executable
• Android: added support for 16 KB page sizes on 64-bit devices
• Unix: introduced a compile-time opt-in for OpenGL ES
• Updated the CMake script
• Many assorted improvements and fixes

Source: GitHub

Would be fun to see more people make use of this and create something with it.