On Wednesday, 4 January 2023 at 02:54:51 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
Hello D Game Developers. As you guys know, I have been
developing a cross platform game engine for some years right
now. I'm close to release version 1.0. If everything goes
right, I can do it before the Global Game Jam, though I'm still
studying other related things.
My engine is stable right now (probably won't have a massive
refactor for quite a time), and I would like to ask some things
for you guys only to know which priorities to give in my
roadmap:
1: Would you be interested in participating in a D game jam?
I'm going to promote those in near future with paid prizes
(though those are going to require using my engine as its main
purpose is making it better).
I'm hoping to find some time for the Global Game Jam coming up.
I'm likely to use D or some combination of D and C-based
libraries.
2: Why did you started using D for developing games?
To learn more :)
3: What frameworks, libraries or game engines are you using for
D? Are you developing your own?
SDL2 (and eventually 3) and OpenGL
3.1: What do you like more about the framework you're using?
3.2: What do you dislike about the framework you're using?
Generally like the platform support with SDL (meaning it runs on
linux, mac, windows, etc.).
Generally, when developing games I spent a bit of time on the
abstraction.
4: What the D ecosystem is missing for you to develop your own
game?
I think D ecosystem is missing iOS support. SDL and OpenGL are
enough for the time being otherwise (eventually I'll look more at
vulkan-d)
5: How much do you care about the game engine being betterC
compatible? And why?
I haven't done much with betterC yet -- but that is likely
something that will get attention from game devs.
6: Which kind of game do you plan to develop? 2D or 3D? Which
platform are you targeting?
Both 2D/3D and targeting Desktop and Android.
7: Are you looking to sell your game or just toying with the D
language ( not going to make any serious project )? Why?
Right now I'm faculty, but thinking hard about more graphics/game
dev tools and building serious projects in D.
