D for Game Development

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/08/2015 12:05 p.m., Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 13:43:35 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>> D is really cool and makes a good candidate for developing a game. Are
>> there any guys out there using D for indie games?
>>
>> For some time I have been seeing some cool game engine being developed
>> in the DUB repo. What more is happening? I don't see derelictSDl and
>> derelictSFML activities much. Whatup?
>
> One thing I would really like for D would be an opengl binding in
> phobos, there was some momentum a while ago to try to get graphics into
> phobos with Aurora, but literally nothing came of that. People want an
> all D gui, and graphics support but literally nothing will ever happen
> until we at least get some basic graphics interfaces like a simple
> windowing library and some opengl. We are already getting color and
> images, full on hw supported graphics is the next step.
>
> Also a thing I would really like is if all the new graphics related
> things went into a std.graphics, it would be nice if it was
> std.graphics.color, std.graphics.image, std.graphics.opengl,
> std.graphics.window, std.graphics.gui, ect...
>
> That and some simple linear alg into phobos, gl3n pls?
>
> We literally have most of the needed parts already just laying around on
> dub and in other places.

Here is what we need to do going forward (beyond what me and Manu are 
doing):

1. Derelict-Util needs to be put into Phobos. This is not optional
2. Derelict-GL3 needs to be put into Phobos. Optional, but might be a 
damn good idea!
3. Windows API needs to be moved into either Phobos or druntime. Not 
optional.
4. X11 bindings added to Phobos. Not optional.
5. Cocoa bindings added to Phobos. Not optional.

This all needs to happen _before_ we start working on a window library 
for Phobos.
Let alone a GUI.

We're mostly got problems with Cocoa. X11 bindings just need to be 
changed to dynamically bound.

Windows API bindings if gone into druntime wouldn't need to go through 
the review cycle luckily. But would need some decent review on e.g. Github.