RE: Need help with sdks.

[Rick Genter <RGenter@ibasis.net>]

Oddly enough, I agree wholeheartedly with Jan.

Having come from the 3D game development world, I've seen how much work it
is to do a 3D game well. If your game lends itself well to a 2D environment,
by all means, go 2D. Obviously, if you're doing a first-person shooter, go
3D, but I'd rather see people spend more time on the gameplay and less on
the graphics.

Just my personal preference....

Rick
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Rick Genter
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iBasis, Inc.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Ekholm [mailto:chakie@infa.abo.fi]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 8:49 AM
> To: linuxgames@sunsite.auc.dk
> Subject: Re: Need help with sdks.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Pedro Medeiros wrote:
> 
> >I started programming my RPG for Linux, but I still
> >haven't figured out what lib I should use. Reading some
> >messages from this list, I realized that, although it's a
> >2D RPG, a 3D SDK would make the job much easier,
> >because I could use opengl/glide hardware support and
> >still scale, rotate, alpha-blend etc. How bad would this
> >game look if I try to run it without hardware acceleration?
> 
> Using 3D where 2D would suffice is plain overkill and makes 
> the project
> several orders of magnitude less likely to ever be 
> finished... I'd go for
> simple 2D presentation using simple icons and instead making sure the
> actual game-engine and logic works ok. Design it so that the 
> graphics are
> in a clearly separated subsystem, basically just 'viewing' 
> the game scene,
> and use a simple but flexible interface between the gfx 
> subsystem and the
> game-engine. That makes it easy to replace the 2D engine with 
> a fullblown
> 3D engine when the time is right.
> 
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>  Jan 'Chakie' Ekholm |    CS at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
>     Linux Inside     | I'm the blue screen of death, no-one 
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