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What is GameMonkey Script?
GameMonkey is a embedded scripting language that is intended for use in game and tool applications. GameMonkey is however suitable for use in any project requiring simple scripting support. GameMonkey borrows concepts from Lua (www.lua.org), but uses syntax similar to C, making it more accessible to game programmers. GameMonkey also natively supports multithreading and the concept of states.
XNA Magic is the first all-in-one game development system designed from the ground up to take full advantage of the brand new Microsoft XNA platform.
Providing an extensible game engine, level editor, particle system design surface, logic editor, script editor and a great deal more, XNA Magic is designed to be both complete and easy to use.
As well as the core engine that is designed to work on both Windows® XP and the XBox 360, XNA Magic features a fully dynamic design time environment that allows you to see changes to all your game components, shaders and assets in real time.
XNA Magic is not a port of an existing engine, it is a complete solution designed around the brand new XNA Framework. It is therefore completely shader based throughout and has no ties to a fixed function past.
What’s more, unlike many engines that require you to modify the engine source, XNA Magic takes a highly granular approach. You can choose to dip in and use whatever aspects you need and no more. Scenes you create in the development environment can be run standalone or exported as a components that you can call from your own code.
Sounds cool. Got a link?oops. Added to original posting.-Deozaan (January 07, 2007, 01:58 PM)
REMINDERFEED HISTORY
I subscribe to a number of blogs. One of them is Steve Pavlina's blog. In November 2005, he started the Million Dollar Experiment. The purpose of the experiment is to use "the intention-manifestation model" to bring a Million Dollars into the lives of everyone that holds the Million Dollar Intention. The "Intention" is a phrase that he wrote which you are suppose to focus on for one minute every day.
In one blog entry he mentioned that some people were having trouble remembering to do the intention every day. He recommended using a feed. And that's when it popped into my head. I should create a ReminderFeed for the Million Dollar Intention, one that shows up in my reader every day.
The site came together fairly rapidly after that. I created a quick prototype over the Thanksgiving Holidays to prove it would work. A week later I commissioned Jeremy Baines of this side up to create a design. Within, four weeks of having the idea, ReminderFeed was born.
gameswf (pronounced "game swiff") is an open source Public Domain library for parsing and rendering SWF movies, using 3D hardware APIs for rendering. It is designed to be used as a UI library for computer and console games.
It is written in C++, and compiles under Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, using GCC and MSVC. It includes code for rendering with OpenGL. The rendering module is factored out so that you can port to other APIs.
It is currently being maintained as a semi-autonomous part of my personal tu-testbed project on SourceForge.
The biggest benefit of using SWF as a file format for game UIs is the availability of high quality authoring tools (like Macromedia Flash MX) and the large number of talented designers who have expertise with these tools. The SWF format is not perfectly suited for game UIs, but it's not bad, and my hope is that gameswf will help improve the quality of game UIs while reducing the effort that goes into making them.
The site is optimized for the blind. I would venture to say that 95%+ of their website visitors only "see" the website through a text to speech interface. That is why there are no screenshots and no fancy graphics.Extreme programming contains some principles that are good in prototyping: “make frequent small releases” and “leave optimization till last”. Both of these tips fit well for making prototypes or small games. I believe that making the core gameplay really fast - a prototype of a game - is a path to building games fast.
Gonna have to learn how to code by then...-TucknDar (January 05, 2007, 05:32 PM)