[Kde-games-devel] The Future of Game Development in KDE

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:29:21 Kleag wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le mercredi 9 septembre 2009 13:59:35, Ian Wadham a écrit :
> > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 6:31:34 am Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> > > Right. It's that time where i tell you all what i've been pondering on
> > > for a while now, so here goes:
> > >
> > > http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1098-The-Future-of-Game-Development
> > >-i n- KDE.html
> > >
> > > The writeup really says it all, so, go go go! :)
> >
> > Sorry, but that link does not tell me very much at all about Gluon ...
> > :-(
> >
> > Also, I would challenge some of your basic assumptions.
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > Secondly, as the maintainer of three KDE Games, I don't find the
> > integration of sound and graphics into a game to be much of a
> > problem, compared to writing the game engine, for example.
> 
> Concerning the game engine, players handling, network stuff, etc. there is
>  also the libkdegames/kgame library which works very well. I'm still
>  surprised that no more games use it. Maybe is it because of a lack of
>  documentations and examples... KsirK uses it since a very long time with
>  no big problems, except during the kde3 to kde4 porting.
> 
> What will make gluon better than that ?

  Gluon for now does not have networking subsystems, and this is likely 
somewhere libkdegames/kgame could come in. Please, don't think we're trying to 
do NIH here - anybody who has something to contribute can do so, and if we 
have well established technologies out there that can help out, then so all 
the better! :) But yes, documentation is problematic - perhaps this is 
somewhere else we can all get together and work on it :) Is there any 
documentation available for libkdegames (other than the API-docs)?

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