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reply David <blah.blah blah.com> writes:
Hi,

I want to try to create a game using D. I'm a complete newbie 
though (other than having C/C++ experience). Where would I start? 
Does D have an openGL binding? I am assuming I'll need to 
leverage a good amount C APIs? Any list of these that would be 
useful it a game setting?

Obviously this all depends on *how* much work I want to do. 
Ideally, I'd like a collection of tools that will get me roughly 
the equivalent of what XNA provides.
May 21 2016
next sibling parent reply Stefan Koch <uplink.coder googlemail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 15:53:18 UTC, David wrote:

 Hi,

 I want to try to create a game using D. I'm a complete newbie 
 though (other than having C/C++ experience). Where would I 
 start? Does D have an openGL binding? I am assuming I'll need 
 to leverage a good amount C APIs? Any list of these that would 
 be useful it a game setting?

 Obviously this all depends on *how* much work I want to do. 
 Ideally, I'd like a collection of tools that will get me 
 roughly the equivalent of what XNA provides.


The is derilict-gl

and then there is the dgame library
May 21 2016
parent ParticlePeter <ParticlePeter gmx.de> writes:
On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 16:01:26 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:

 On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 15:53:18 UTC, David wrote:

 Hi,

 I want to try to create a game using D. I'm a complete newbie 
 though (other than having C/C++ experience). Where would I 
 start? Does D have an openGL binding? I am assuming I'll need 
 to leverage a good amount C APIs? Any list of these that would 
 be useful it a game setting?

 Obviously this all depends on *how* much work I want to do. 
 Ideally, I'd like a collection of tools that will get me 
 roughly the equivalent of what XNA provides.


 The is derilict-gl

 and then there is the dgame library


Check out the DerelictOrg bindings in general:
https://github.com/DerelictOrg

In particular DerelictAssimp3 might help with animation and scene 
loading.

Other related game libraries are in the dub registry:
https://code.dlang.org/search?q=game
May 21 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Rishub Nagpal <rnagpal2 gmu.edu> writes:
On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 15:53:18 UTC, David wrote:

 Hi,

 I want to try to create a game using D. I'm a complete newbie 
 though (other than having C/C++ experience). Where would I 
 start? Does D have an openGL binding? I am assuming I'll need 
 to leverage a good amount C APIs? Any list of these that would 
 be useful it a game setting?

 Obviously this all depends on *how* much work I want to do. 
 Ideally, I'd like a collection of tools that will get me 
 roughly the equivalent of what XNA provides.


I use GFM, https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/gfm

It's pretty easy to use and saves alot of headache. Downside is 
that the documentation is somewhat outdated (namely close() 
functions are deprecated, you have to use the destroy attribute, 
or typecons).

SDL + OpenGL is easy with GFM.

here is a good opengl tutorial : http://www.learnopengl.com/
May 21 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Rishub Nagpal <rnagpal2 gmu.edu> writes:
On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 15:53:18 UTC, David wrote:

 Hi,

 I want to try to create a game using D. I'm a complete newbie 
 though (other than having C/C++ experience). Where would I 
 start? Does D have an openGL binding? I am assuming I'll need 
 to leverage a good amount C APIs? Any list of these that would 
 be useful it a game setting?

 Obviously this all depends on *how* much work I want to do. 
 Ideally, I'd like a collection of tools that will get me 
 roughly the equivalent of what XNA provides.


Also forgot to add this : 
http://defenestrate.eu/_static/ossvikend/intro-gamedev-d/slides/index.html

It's an intro to D game dev
May 21 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 15:53:18 UTC, David wrote:

 Hi,

 I want to try to create a game using D. I'm a complete newbie 
 though (other than having C/C++ experience). Where would I 
 start? Does D have an openGL binding? I am assuming I'll need 
 to leverage a good amount C APIs? Any list of these that would 
 be useful it a game setting?

 Obviously this all depends on *how* much work I want to do. 
 Ideally, I'd like a collection of tools that will get me 
 roughly the equivalent of what XNA provides.


In DlangUI there is Tetris game example

     Repository: https://github.com/buggins/dlangui

     Tetris: 
https://github.com/buggins/dlangui/tree/master/examples/tetris

Clone repository, cd dlangui/examples/tetris, dub run

As well, there are OpenGL example

     https://github.com/buggins/dlangui/tree/master/examples/opengl

and DMiner example (minecraft-like rendering engine)

     https://github.com/buggins/dlangui/tree/master/examples/dminer
May 22 2016
prev sibling parent Karabuta <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 15:53:18 UTC, David wrote:

 Hi,

 I want to try to create a game using D. I'm a complete newbie 
 though (other than having C/C++ experience). Where would I 
 start? Does D have an openGL binding? I am assuming I'll need 
 to leverage a good amount C APIs? Any list of these that would 
 be useful it a game setting?

 Obviously this all depends on *how* much work I want to do. 
 Ideally, I'd like a collection of tools that will get me 
 roughly the equivalent of what XNA provides.


If you don't know much OpenGL, go for DSFML 
https://github.com/Jebbs/DSFML
May 22 2016