On Monday 09 October 2006 15:56, Ian Munro wrote:
> About 2 years ago I created a project space on
sourceforge for a
> universal platform game engine. Unfortunately over the
last 2 years I
> have done nothing with it. As I now have some spare
time I am thinking
> about making a start. Before I do so I thought I'd see
if anyone was
> interested in helping or willing to provide
suggestions.
>
> The original idea was to produce a generic framework to
allow non
> programmers to create platform style games using
scripts and tools. I
> have recently become interested in MMO games and would
like to integrate
> some sort of networking into the engine. Apart from
that constraint I'm
> open to design suggestions
>
> I'm currently torn between writing this in Delphi or in
C#. As Delphi is
> my first language I'll see what kind of feedback I get
from the Delphi
> groups. If I don't hear anything then I'll throw open
the offer to the
> C# groups.
my vote goes for delphi (or freepascal). it's WAY more
portable, faster and
not by microsoft ;)
i recommend you to make your engine portable by only using
portable libraries,
such as SDL, and maybe to improve the speed, OpenGL. If you
use delphi and
portable libs, the engine will work on linux,too.
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