You can now set a sprite as a background in Background which will simplify a lot of games that just place sprites over a single image.

src/guecs/sfml/components.cpp

@@ -121,8 +121,36 @@ namespace guecs {
     assert(shape != nullptr && "failed to make rectangle");
   }
 
+  void Background::set_color(sf::Color c) {
+    color = c;
+  }
+
+  void Background::set_sprite(const std::string& name, bool stretch) {
+    auto sprite_texture = BACKEND->texture_get(name);
+
+    sprite = make_shared<sf::Sprite>(
+        *sprite_texture.texture,
+        sprite_texture.sprite->getTextureRect());
+
+    sprite->setPosition({float(x), float(y)});
+
+    if(stretch) {
+      auto bounds = sprite->getLocalBounds();
+
+      sprite->setScale({
+          float(w) / bounds.size.x,
+          float(h) / bounds.size.y});
+    }
+  }
+
   void Background::render(sf::RenderWindow& window) {
-    window.draw(*shape);
+    if(shape != nullptr) {
+      window.draw(*shape);
+    }
+
+    if(sprite != nullptr) {
+      window.draw(*sprite);
+    }
   }
 
   void Effect::init(lel::Cell &cell) {