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digitalmars.D.announce - FewDee: A library for 2D game prototyping

reply Leandro Motta Barros <lmb stackedboxes.org> writes:
Hello,

FewDee is an incomplete, experimental, mostly 2D, library focused on games
prototyping.

The official Mercurial repository is here:

   https://bitbucket.org/lmb/fewdee

And there is a Git mirror here:

   https://github.com/lmbarros/FewDee

This is work in progress. It is usable(*), but still needs lots of
improvements.

  (*) I used an early version of FewDee in a prototype that worked even in
a public demonstration ;-)

I wasn't afraid of using D any features in FewDee, so I used (and even
misused) lots of associative arrays, delegates, GC'ed memory... it might be
interesting to see how it will behave in more demanding applications.

My plan now is to stop working directly on FewDee; instead, I intend to
actually use it in a few more game prototypes. Then, I'll use this
experience to further guide the library evolution.

Lastly, this is my first sizable D project, so destroy with kindness ;-)

Cheers,

LMB
Sep 04 2013
next sibling parent reply "ilya-stromberg" <ilya-stromberg-2009 yandex.ru> writes:
On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 00:40:27 UTC, Leandro Motta 
Barros wrote:

 FewDee is an incomplete, experimental, mostly 2D, library 
 focused on games
 prototyping.


It's intresting. Do you have any game prototype? It will be 
intresting to see FewDee usage.

About build system - you can use dub:
https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub
It's really simple.

Also, can you publish Allegro library bindings for D to the 
Deimos:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos
It can be useful for another projects.
Sep 05 2013
next sibling parent "qznc" <qznc web.de> writes:
On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 07:05:00 UTC, ilya-stromberg 
wrote:

 On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 00:40:27 UTC, Leandro Motta 
 Barros wrote:

 FewDee is an incomplete, experimental, mostly 2D, library 
 focused on games
 prototyping.


 It's intresting. Do you have any game prototype? It will be 
 intresting to see FewDee usage.

 About build system - you can use dub:
 https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub
 It's really simple.

 Also, can you publish Allegro library bindings for D to the 
 Deimos:
 https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos
 It can be useful for another projects.


SiegeLord maintains Allegro5 bindings. Worked flawless for me so 
far.

https://github.com/SiegeLord/DAllegro5
Sep 05 2013
prev sibling parent reply Leandro Motta Barros <lmb stackedboxes.org> writes:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:04 AM, ilya-stromberg <
ilya-stromberg-2009 yandex.ru> wrote:


 On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 00:40:27 UTC, Leandro Motta Barros wrote:


 FewDee is an incomplete, experimental, mostly 2D, library focused on games
 prototyping.


 It's intresting. Do you have any game prototype? It will be intresting to
 see FewDee usage.


So far, I used FewDee (a very early version, in fact) in one prototype
only, but it is not open source. I hope to develop some simple examples I
can share during the next months.

About build system - you can use dub:

 https://github.com/**rejectedsoftware/dub<https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub>
 It's really simple.


Yeah, I should probably consider using it. (Even for its package manager
features.)


 Also, can you publish Allegro library bindings for D to the Deimos:
 https://github.com/D-**Programming-Deimos<https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos>
 It can be useful for another projects.


I should have mentioned that I am using SiegeLord's Allegro bindings, which
someone else has already mentioned down the thread:

   https://github.com/SiegeLord/DAllegro5

LMB
Sep 05 2013
parent reply "ilya-stromberg" <ilya-stromberg-2009 yandex.ru> writes:
On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 10:24:00 UTC, Leandro Motta 
Barros wrote:

 So far, I used FewDee (a very early version, in fact) in one 
 prototype
 only, but it is not open source. I hope to develop some simple 
 examples I
 can share during the next months.


Can you publish a video of the game to the YouTube.com whitout 
any source codes?
Sep 05 2013
parent Leandro Motta Barros <lmb stackedboxes.org> writes:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:33 AM, ilya-stromberg <
ilya-stromberg-2009 yandex.ru> wrote:


 On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 10:24:00 UTC, Leandro Motta Barros wrote:


 So far, I used FewDee (a very early version, in fact) in one prototype
 only, but it is not open source. I hope to develop some simple examples I
 can share during the next months.


 Can you publish a video of the game to the YouTube.com whitout any source
 codes?


Sorry, I don't want to invest the time to do this right now. I know this
would be important to "sell" FewDee to new users, but getting users isn't
my focus at the moment. Anyway (better than nothing, I guess), I have a few
screenshots here:

http://www.stackedboxes.org/~lmb/Balaio/Pontius_Abertura.png
http://www.stackedboxes.org/~lmb/Balaio/Pontius_Jogo.png
http://www.stackedboxes.org/~lmb/Balaio/Pontius_Brabo.png
http://www.stackedboxes.org/~lmb/Balaio/Pontius_Vigilancia.png

Some background: I made this in a rush, for my aunt, who frequently works
training restaurant employees in best hygiene practices. She was working in
her academic specialization, defending the usage of games to train these
people.

LMB
Sep 05 2013
prev sibling parent "Volcz" <volcz kth.se> writes:
On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 00:40:27 UTC, Leandro Motta 
Barros wrote:

 Hello,

 FewDee is an incomplete, experimental, mostly 2D, library 
 focused on games
 prototyping.
 Lastly, this is my first sizable D project, so destroy with 
 kindness ;-)

 Cheers,

 LMB


Great! I've been wanting something like this for some time!
Maybe you can consider posting it on: r/programming/ and 
r/d_language/

Will try it out later :-)
Sep 05 2013