Re: [gnome-love] Games programming with GNOME and related technologies

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

Neat. =)
Actually, SDL can be used with GNOME. A lot of applications do it
already, and SDL also provides the ability for 3d with OpenGL display
rendering. I think there might be a few GNOME based things that
use SDL. A Nautilus view for mpeg movies comes to mind, I think it
is in GNOME cvs somewhere.

-- dobey

On 09 Aug 2001 22:17:45 +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
> I've got various ideas floating around that might finally lead to me 
> being able to do what I've been wanting to do and write an (albeit 
> fairly basic) RPG in the style of Baldur's Gate or Secret of Mana. Now, 
> I'd obviously like to do this on Linux and related OSes, and I would 
> definitely like to be able to do it with GTK+ and probably GNOME as the 
> base GUI provider for the options dialogs, windows and so forth - mostly 
> because I already know a reasonable amount about how to use it. 
> Everything I need to know, in fact, apart from some of the GNOME 
> integration technologies I'll be needing, libxml (which I'd like to use 
> for the datafiles) and most crucially some kind of suitable high-speed 
> 2D graphics engine to actually draw the game action. I know of a couple 
> of things that provide 2D APIs suitable for gaming - SDL, ClanLib, 
> Crystal Space to name but three - but can I realistically use any of 
> these with GNOME?
> 
> Actually, what I'd really like to do is use Crystal Space's 3D engine, 
> but I guess I'd have to go away from GNOME to do that properly. I'm not 
> keen on writing the graphics engine from scratch using GtkGLArea!
> 
> So, can anyone point me at some suitable projects and/or resources for 
> that kind of thing? I'm thinking 2D to start with at least, but that may 
> change if I can stop my hardware-accelerated graphics from jerking 
> (you'd think a Voodoo4 would be fine, but oh no...) and if I can gather 
> up the enthusiasm.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
>  Matthew Walton
>  matthew alledora co uk
> 
>  Miri it is whil Linux ilast
> 
> 
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