Hello folks, YAPC::NA 2011 was a blast and I wish more of the PerlGameDev folks were there. Now I hope to think I am a get things done guy. But really I couldn't have done any of the stuff without any of you guys (FROGGS, garu, jtpalmer, kmx and many others!). I have posted my talk and notes at http://yapgh.blogspot.com/ .
Apologies to Module Authors and Perl6 for invading your mailing lists but I am hoping some of these projects are interesting to others who want to help with PerlGameDev and the below projects. Before running of to India tomorrow I am just going through my recollections of 'promises'. Also this way I don't forget the stuff I discussed, or if I do forget ppl will remember :p. =head1 PerlGameDev Monthly Aims and Releases =blame chromatic =for kthakore, FROGGS, garu, jtpalmer chromatic has opened my eyes on having a monthly goal that we aim for. In SDL perl5 we have had a progressive chaos. But I think having a progressive chaos that aims to get something done each month (even a few docs) might be a great idea cause we are all busy, and I would hate to lose what we have a year. These will go up on this mailing-list and maybe the wiki (we haven't used both as regularly as we should). Because I consider all of PerlGameDev a single project, I will just be adding them together in an announce end of each month. And you are reading it :D. You might have notice I have actually gotten off my lazy ass and did a good job with this announce. I will be using POD format but subsequent need not be. I have also add 'blame and for' tags so people can understand where ideas are coming from (=blame) and who should maybe perhaps (please oh please) glance at it (=for). So this way ppl can search for their tags/names and ignore the other stuff should they want. =head1 Progressions for July I am gone for most of July so I can't expect anyone to listen to me, and start this so I have already done the first release for July :P. =head2 Announcing Perl6/SDL stuff [RELEASED!] =blame Util =for kthakore RELEASE: http://modules.perl6.org/ (ctrl-f SDL) Util convinced me on the value of having a simple drawing module for Perl6 a lot. So I have decided to add SDL6 'officially' to PerlGameDev. Hopefully in a year or show we can have something interesting. Perl6 is a lot easier to bind C libraries at this point, so that is refreshing. Additionally a discussion with chromatic reminded me that SDL 1.3 is probably the best hope we have for Perl6/SDL (it is a lot cleaner ). Any way I started up the a Perl6 module that does NCI via the NativeCall.pm https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL6 (It uses SDL 1.2 for now) It has a test, and NativeCall is finding SDL that is installed. It is in the panda ( the perl6 CPAN I guess ). dukeleto mentioned he took a glance at parrotSDL. I am hoping to focus on SDL6 with SDL 1.3 once I have an Alien::SDL ( getter and installer ) for it. This will prolly take kick up storm in August I think. =head1 Continuing Projects =blame kthakore, chromatic =for kthakore, chromatic, garu =head2 SDL_Manual Book Indexing and Chapter Intentions and Exercises I am hoping to read over Modern Perl source today, and do some of the indexing I talked about. The chapter intentions should be done end of July. That leaves the exercises which I can't really promise cause I am bad at making those (garu would you be interested in this ?). =head1 Progressions for August 2011 =head2 Distribution Network/Server/Client for Perl Games =blame hercynium, Jesse =for kthakore, KMX, FROGGS, Alias I have had an idea of preparing an 'official' way for Perl Game Developers to publish games, while allowing end game users to download and running games. Discussions with hercynium and Jesse Vincent, have opened my eyes towards technologies such as MetaCPAN, Shipwright/Carton, and a wxWidgets front end. This idea needs some feedback so feel free to hammer me. But code will start in Mid/End August. I am hoping to have 'test' this idea on Frozen Bubble, Zumbis, Zombie_Puzzle (a Box2d/SDL game) and Construder. Which brings me to OpenGL. =head2 OpenGL 3.0 =blame kthakore, chromatic =for kthakore, Chris, jtpalmer This comes from the following observations ( feel free to scold/correct me ). =over =item Convergence to OpenGL SDL 1.3 is moving over to OpenGL. Having the ability to do neat things with OpenGL this will help to add more performance, speed and flexibility to the module. =item POGL still uses FreeGLUT POGL albeit great is getting ... old. FreeGLUT is slowing down ( SDL replaces this fine and we have tests to prove it see construder. It is an extra dep. =item OpenGL 3.3 is a fixed target New OpenGL is all the way up to 4.x now. OpenGL 3.3 has been around for a while and is not going to be using. =back Based on this I think we should attempt to help the POGL dev with whatever he needs. I will move it to github at some point. Additionally chip during my talk you mentioned some technology for doing OpenGL context/display lists better. Can you mention it again chip? I seem to have forgotten it. The hope will be to make a declarative for OpenGL constructs that can be sent straight to the hardware. Adam Kennedy has some work start in this area (OpenGL::List). Regards, -- Kartik Thakore <kthak...@cpan.org>
