Re: [Chicken-users] [Ann] New eggs: Hyperscene and Hypergiant
Hello all, As there have been a number of reports about installation problems on OS X, I thought I’d let people know that all of the issues that were preventing installation (and some more) are now fixed. Even if you’re not on OS X, if you have hypergiant installed, I strongly recommend running: chicken-install glls noise soil hyperscene hypergiant in order to get up-to-date. For those of you using Homebrew, I’m afraid that you need an additional step when installing GLFW. For some reason Homebrew renames the GLFW library name from libglfw to libglfw3. Please rename it back or create a link with the proper name. OS X users installing from other sources shouldn’t have this issue. Thanks for all of the bug reports, for all of the positive feedback, and just for trying Hypergiant out! -- Alex ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
[Chicken-users] [Ann] New eggs: Hyperscene and Hypergiant
Hi Chickeneers, I'm happy to announce two new eggs: Hyperscene and Hypergiant. Hyperscene is a relatively low-level scene management library that is a set of bindings to a C library of the same name. Hypergiant uses Hyperscene, and many other eggs, to create a library aimed at making games in CHICKEN. Hypergiant itself is mainly a glue library which makes it possible to work with OpenGL at a relatively high level of abstraction. It *tries* to balance ease of use with extensibility, while maintaining an efficient implementation. Beyond working with OpenGL, Hypergiant attempts to provide all of the support needed in order to get things up and running quickly, while allowing enough flexibility to be extensible in any way that you might want. If this interests you, check out the docs for these eggs here: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/hyperscene http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/hypergiant I also wrote a tutorial about working with Hypergiant which is probably a good starting point: http://alex-charlton.com/posts/Prototype_to_polish_Making_games_in_CHICKEN_Scheme_with_Hypergiant/ In sum, I'm fairly certain that Hypergiant is one of the more novel general-purpose game libraries available, and it wouldn’t have been the same without the delightful CHICKEN. So many thanks to everyone who's helped make this possible! Cheers, -- Alex ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
Re: [Chicken-users] [Ann] New eggs: Hyperscene and Hypergiant
I love it! Than-you for the hard work. -Dan On 6 Jan 2015 12:47, Alex Charlton alex.n.charl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chickeneers, I'm happy to announce two new eggs: Hyperscene and Hypergiant. Hyperscene is a relatively low-level scene management library that is a set of bindings to a C library of the same name. Hypergiant uses Hyperscene, and many other eggs, to create a library aimed at making games in CHICKEN. Hypergiant itself is mainly a glue library which makes it possible to work with OpenGL at a relatively high level of abstraction. It *tries* to balance ease of use with extensibility, while maintaining an efficient implementation. Beyond working with OpenGL, Hypergiant attempts to provide all of the support needed in order to get things up and running quickly, while allowing enough flexibility to be extensible in any way that you might want. If this interests you, check out the docs for these eggs here: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/hyperscene http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/hypergiant I also wrote a tutorial about working with Hypergiant which is probably a good starting point: http://alex-charlton.com/posts/Prototype_to_polish_Making_games_in_CHICKEN_Scheme_with_Hypergiant/ In sum, I'm fairly certain that Hypergiant is one of the more novel general-purpose game libraries available, and it wouldn’t have been the same without the delightful CHICKEN. So many thanks to everyone who's helped make this possible! Cheers, -- Alex ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
