Hi, Quote I'm very, very new to the world of object-oriented programming, and I have to admit that it scares the living love outa me, End quote
Ok, what is so scary about object oriented programming? It is the basic building block of modern programming, and if you think about it the subject is very simple. Your game character is an object. So you need to write a storage class to store his health, ammo, current location, etc. The class becomes a new type called Character.Which is used to create Character objects such as your hero. Everything in your life is an object. Your car, your house, your dog, your computer, are all objects. Programmers uses classes to break down the objects into there basic storage values such as health, weather it is on or off, full or empty, bla. Simple really. Quote but I was thinking...what if the GMA Games game engine was shown to Microsoft or Soni and they liked it. End quote Bare with me as I play devil's advocate here. Unfortunately, I think this is a fantacy. The GMA Engine is awesome for writing blind friendly games sure, but Sony and those guys have much more advanced engines for their Play Station games. Not to mention the GMA Engine was coded in VB 6 which has no pportability to the Play Station or anywhere else. However, you are correct that us in the blind development field should offer something to the big league developers to show them how to do blind accessibility and do it right. As it happens I've been toiling with the concept of releasing the USA Games 3D engine as open source. It's not super advanced as an engine goes, I use trig based formulas rather than calculous, but it would be a good sample for big developers to look at and see the mechanics of game accessibility under the hood. The engine is completely written in C#. It isn't C++, but is close enough to C++ for most game developers to read and understand what the game code does. (Smile) _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
