On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 18:21:30 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Hi,
just wanted to announce that Sony has finally made the new
Playstation
Vita SDK available, as we were discussing some months ago.
http://www.playstation.com/pss/index_e.html
The gamming industry seems to be slowing moving to C#. Would we
still
be able to convince developers to move to D instead?
--
Paulo
As a mobile game developer myself, this was one of my deepest
dreams. I'm a silent D follower since it's beginnings, and did
some game development back them (D2 didn't existed yet, though).
You know, working with mobile game development is very hard, as
there is this beast called multi-platforms. We started working
with Java+Android, but the lack of performance and the need to
port our games to iOS made us take a drastic move and port the
engine to C++. This worked ok, but as an avid D guy, almost daily
I stumble myself arguing with myself "Oh my god, this would be so
clean/beautiful/simple if made with D".
So please folks, lets do something to the D-ARM backend. I'm not
a compiler expert, but if someone volunteer to mention I'm
disposed to learn how to do that as I would love to use D on a
game engine. This is (at least to me) a point were D would shine
so much (being able to integrate many platforms) that it's
visibility could skyrocket to were it deserves.
Another option that crossed my mind was to do something like a
kickstarter funding to pay someone to do that fulltime. What you
guys think?
