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

[John Ericson <john john pp se>]

On Aug 09 22:17, Matthew Walton wrote:
> 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?
You can use GTK with SDL so I think it should be able to use Gnome to
without to much hassle.

> 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!
How hard would it be to make Crystal Spaze render into a GtkGLArena? I
haven't used GtkGLArena, but I imagine that it takes normal Open-GL commands so
wouldn't it just be to redirect these from Crystal Spaze. 
Perhaps you should look at any mailing-list on the Crystal Space project?

> 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.
You mentioned libxml earlier in your mail, and I have used for my game
called spacemaze to store the levels. I have a minimal example showing how
to use the SAX parser in libxml, if you want I could send it over to you?


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