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On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:17 PM, vetch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Me, and I think, many other developers, always tried to write some > game. > > Problem with a game, is a complexity of technic stuff. Complexity, > means learning. Learning is great, but takes time. > > I think, Android needs a game framework. Something like SDL or more, > XNA from Microsoft. Of course, we can use Canvas to draw, but it is > slow. We can use OpenGL, but after two days of learning I still do not > know how to draw f** background. Of course, I will do that. Some > day :) But state and flags-ful OGL interface is really hard to > understand if you go from wonderful world of objective thinking. > > I just want to focus on creating art, not wondering how to create > tools for that. > > I'm worrying, really worring about Android and games. M$ has XNA, > porting it to Zune with Tegra. After that, XNA will come to WinMo. If > you ever used C# and XNA, you know, how simple and great it is. What > does it mean ? Thousands of games for Microsoft Mobile Junk and still > no great games for Android. Worst. Many Android developers will go to > WinMo for XNA. Many games will be easily ported from Xbox Arcade too. > > And we will be wasting time, wondering, how to get 25fps from Canvas > or OpenGL. Without sound. > > Now, I think, is the time to do something with that. Android really > needs something like XNA, to allow us producing games without all that > technic stuff like OpenGL, game loops with managing threads, times, > buffers, right pixel format settings and others. > > What you think about official game framework for Android ? > > Is Google working on something like that ? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
