[Techtalk] Linux game programming

[Michelle Konzack]

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Am 2007-07-17 15:33:38, schrieb Carla Schroder:
> hey all,
> 
> Does this make sense to you fine brainiacal coders:
> 
> >>"The games I come across are crossword puzzles, word games, etc, all written 
> for Windows by companies like PopCap and None of the Big names in Gaming even 
> get a look in.
>    
> > Go ahead and code! These things should be pretty easy to build using Python 
> + PyGTK + Glade. I'd say that the biggest challenge would be getting some 
> decent SVG art. So spend a few hundred dollars on that (raise it, or pay it 
> yourself and consider it your donation to FOSS. That's what I'm going to 
> do)."
> 
> I want to learn to write a few games my own self. Cool fun games that have no 
> guns, cars, drugs, or hos, and that don't need super-duper 3D video. What do 
> you think would be some good tools and languages to create some fun games in? 
> I think Frozen-Bubble is done in Perl, and Tetris sure didn't need the DOOM 
> engine in its original release.
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Hello,

I am in a a littlt bit bigger private group coding an Strategical Action
Game in C/ASM plus scripting engine.  It is a Game like "Fleet Command"
and since I am french military (11 days and my part is over) I was doing
the technical stuff (real weapon design).

The Game is 100% GPL including tonns of video sequences and audio but
there is definitivly a distribution problem (specialy in Debian)

I have already splited the videos, audios, game data and the Game is now
over 40 Debian Packages but still 5 CD's or ONE DVD.  this would be fine
even for Debian-Mirrors but the Sources are the killer!!!

Nearly 26 GByte... 

In general the ORIGINAL Videos I took all over the world.

And since we cut out sequences which are included into the Game, we
can not shrink it down compress it.  The quality loss is to hight.

Unfortunatly we have some technical (opps... crashing) problems.

But anyway, the Game will be distributed with a special 64bit Debian-
Live-CD, created by my own.  The game will not run on a i386.  It works
perfectly with "amd64" but give us problems if someone use a EMT64.

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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