i think the short answer is that the big game producers dont use it. i haven't kept up with hte field, but last i looked (a few years ago) game developers predominantly used proprietary development systems on top of assembly-coded graphics engines.
but thats not to say that Delphi cant be legereaged to write elaborate games. check out http://glscene.org for one heck of a Delphi/OPascal OpenGL environment (I've used it for business graphics, a bit of extra work for a lot of satisfaction and control compared to many higher-priced charting libraries.. OpenGL issues have been the only real downside). and http://www.delphigamer.com lists a Doom for Delphi project. I get the general sense that the open source branch of the OPascal community, dissapointed with Borland's investment of time and resources into .Net instead of .. well, much of anything else, are looking to the Lazarus project (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) to keep the torch burning in the longer run. There's even a Lazarus/GLscene bundled install available here: http://www.skinhat.com/lazarus Links found at the sites referenced above should put you in the thick of the OPascal game development world. It may not be highly visible (aren't we used to that by now? :-( ) but it does exist. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have something a little bit strange to discuss: GAMES! > >Maybe there are peoples here that will say: games? We don't do games! Not >serious! Shame! > >But still. Why I don't see big games made in Delphi? >I saw until now few hilarious small (flash like) games but nothing serious. >No Warcraft, no Unreal, no Doom. >Why? It is Delphi to slow? I don't think so. >It have problems to manage huge pieces of source code? >I never wrote a program bigger than 12400 lines of code. So I don't know how >Delphi will handle >huge projects. > >I saw that support for DirectX is pretty good. I used in the past DelphiX and >now I use Graphics32 >a pretty good and fast library. >So why people still think Delphi is only for DB programming? > > >PS: what about 3D games and .Net ? > > >...and the traveler died, stroked by the beauty of the landscape. > >THE MORNING OF THE MAGICIANS >Louis Pawels & Jacques Bergier > > > >__________________________________ >Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >__________________________________________________ >Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] >http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > > __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
