Hey William, Thanks for the announcement and for open-sourcing GameStack.
Good to see another open source alternative game framework! Cheers, Bob Summerwill (http://bobsummerwill.wordpress.com/about) On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:16 PM, William Ivanski <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems wonderful, very feature-rich and high quality software. > > I'm already looking for a gap in my agenda to try GameStack :) > > > Em qua 16 jul 2014, às 16:05:54, Brett Ernst escreveu: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to introduce GameStack, an open-source toolkit for Mono and > > Xamarin.iOS/Android. GameStack is for building games, interactive > displays > > and visualization components. It pulls together a number of open source > > libraries into one package and adds its own facilities. GameStack was > > originally an internal toolkit, but was recently open sourced and made > > available on GitHub by my employer. We use Mono and Xamarin heavily in > our > > work, and GameStack is the result of a series of increasingly advanced > > projects. It's been used to build data visualization components with > > Xamarin, and on NUCs/embedded PCs with Mono to drive huge interactive > touch > > displays. > > > > Project repo: https://github.com/icmus/GameStack > > > > Project wiki: http://gamestack.wiki > > > > Unfortunately, most of GameStack's projects were for clients, so I don't > > have permission to share those. There's a silly little game included > among > > the samples, but we're on the lookout for something more robust to show > off > > with. At least one iPad game will be launching within the next week or > two, > > so we'll add some good screenshots from that. > > > > The top question is likely to be: how is GameStack different from > MonoGame? > > GameStack departs significantly from the XNA API; portability for > existing > > apps wasn't a priority in our case. We desired a high degree of control > > over the API, feature set and pipeline, and we used real-world projects > to > > help shape it. We don't currently have ambitions to support all the > > platforms that MonoGame does. > > > > I'm just dipping my toes in the water here, gauging community interest. > > Your thoughts are welcome! > > > > - Brett > > -- > William Ivanski > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > -- [email protected]
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