On 5/12/09, Arc Riley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:43 PM, J Sloan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't we already have something like that? SDL, anybody? >> > > some low level window/input frameworks used in free software games: > > GLX (roughly equiv to WGL) > freeGLUT (free replacement for GL Utility Toolkit) > FLTK (C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL) > SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) > GDK (GTK's window/input layer - small, efficient, and cross-platform) > GTKGLArea (GTK extension to include a GL drawing area inside a GTK window)
Last time I checked SDL was nowhere as complete as DirectX. Correct me if I'm wrong. Game developers don't want to track 600 different frameworks for creating games for Linux. (OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, ...). Linux must have a unified gaming platform, otherwise it will never be a viable choice for gaming developers. Also I'd like you to read the following essay: Playing the Open Source Game By Shawn Hargreaves, July 1999 http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/games.html -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki >><< Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
