Hi Philip,
Thanks. Hopefully this project will turn out as good as it sounds. At
this point its as much experimental as based on background research.
this will be the first time an audio game developer will be considering
using SDL, the Simple Direct Media Layer, as a core part of an audio
game engine. I'm unclear how successful I'll be with it because SDL
Mixer is a very very generic API for mixing and playing audio. While it
has 2d stereo panningwhich is fine for some games I'll probably have to
invest some time in developing some modules for FMOD or OpenAL for
anything that requires 5.1 3d audio support.
That said, I have a pretty good idea of what should be possible using
this engine. There are some limitations like the lack of 5.1 surround
sound support for more realistic 3d audio environments, no force
feedback support for joysticks, and things like that, but I can think of
several good games that don't require those advanced features anyway. I
know several games for Linux that are decent games that don't really
need that sort of thing to be good. There is Lin City which is a free
open source clone of Sim City. There is Free Civ which is a clone of
Civilization. There is Flight Gear which is a clone of Microsoft Flight
Simulator. Not to mention all the free arcade games like Asteroids,
Missile Command, Frozen Bubble, Super Tux, Packman, etc. All are written
using SDL so even though its not in the same league as DirectX I think
we can bring some relatively decent games to the platform. Plus as I'm
not dealing with a lot of 3d graphics and such Python should be able to
handle the games well enough.
Cheers!
On 4/2/2012 4:35 AM, Philip Bennefall wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Then we're on the same wavelength. Best of luck with your engine, I
hope it's well received and that you make some nice games with it!
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
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