How to develop a game without utiLITI (instanciate an environment programmatically)?

[HarleyDavidson86]

On my way to look for a java based game engine I stumbled upon LITIENGINE, which looks very interesting to me.
To get in touch with a new framework I always like to start off with something really simple like a clone of "snake" or "SpaceImpact" known from nokia mobilephones.

In the FAQ there is a section telling me that I can create games without using the editor.
So how can I create an environment by myself, because as I can see I need to instanciate one to add entities like enemies or the player?

[nightm4re94]

If you want to instantiate an Environment programmatically, you'll have to understand that there is no Environment without an IMap. So even if you want to have a blank canvas with a black background, you'll have to create an IMap that contains information about the playing field.

Create an entire IMap by code, adding MapObjects and Tiles procedurally using the MapGenerator. Standard objects like CollisionBoxes, Props, etc. can already be part of the Map as MapObjects so the corresponding IEntity type will be loaded when loading the map. This would also allow you to export the generated map and open it with utiLITI . Then you would call Game.world().loadEnvironment(IMap map) to instantiate an Environment from the map you've created. If you are unfamiliar with the MapObject specifications and how to create an IMapObject that will be loaded as a Prop, for example, you can keep the information in the IMap really minimal and make modifications to the environment's IEntitys after loading it. The downside is that you won't have any persistency for the added IEntitys and you couldn't export your map like if you had declared MapObjects on the IMap itself.