Re: Which Game SDK to choose?

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Poizon wrote:

> My first attempt was to use 
> the Allegro library for the game and Qt for the map editor. You can get the 
> code at SourceForge.
You could try my 'PLIB' library suite.  (plib.sf.net)

It's cross-platform: Windoze, Linux, BSD and MacOSX. (maybe Solaris and IRIX
too if you don't mind fiddling with it to get it to install!)

It's a suite of libraries that install together in one bundle (so you don't
have a lot of dependancies - and you don't have to worry about one component
being upgraded to a new version in a way that makes the other components break).

The latest CVS version is totally independent of the base windowing library - so
you can use it with GLUT, SDL, GTK, FLTK, etc or (very soon) with it's own
windowing library which will be a part of the bundle in the next major release.

In the bundle you'll find a 3D scene graph library, a GUI that uses OpenGL to
do it's rendering, a simple sound library, joystick support, a C-like scripting
language interpreter, a vector math suite, etc.

It's all written in C++ under LGPL.

The (sadly failed) PrettyPoly modeller used PLIB with FLTK for a typical
tools type application - and there have been many games based on PLIB and GLUT.
A couple of people have used PLIB with SDL and my latest work is working
with PLIB by itself (using PLIB's own built-in, minimal windowing layer).

Making your tools work within the game itself should be pretty easy.

Since PLIB is a suite of libraries, it's easy to drop out one component and
use something different - so if you don't like the sound library, you can
simply not link to it and pick up (say) OpenAL instead.

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