Are there any 2D games libraries available for D2?
Gan via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 19 23:12:32 PST 2015
On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 04:52:29 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 00:07:20 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 23:59:14 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>>>> I use Dgame which has a really nice and simple interface
>>>>
>>>> http://rswhite.de/dgame4/
>>>>
>>>> From the web page:
>>>>
>>>> Dgame is a 2D framework which is based on the SDL and
>>>> OpenGL, and is designed for the D programming language. The
>>>> design is based on Pygame and as well on the SFML from the
>>>> C++ programming language.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Stew
>>>
>>> I'm looking at DGame - I'm on osx - so I guess I have to
>>> build all the dependencies myself <sigh> - Once I get it
>>> installed and working - it looks like it may be enough for
>>> what I want.
>>>
>>> I guess I'll have to make it work with dub myself to make it
>>> easier to get started with.
>>
>> DGame has a dependency on Derelict 3 - but going to the link
>> provided says that project is no longer maintained and doesn't
>> work with the latest DMD compiler. It points to a new location
>> where there are multiple different Derelict libraries - I'm
>> hoping DGame will work with one of those still.
>
>
> Chiming in with my own library. https://github.com/Jebbs/DSFML
>
> Things are a bit of a mess, but I'm gearing up for a release
> soon and things will be all nice and tidy and structured.
I really want to check out DGame but I suggest withholding from
it until it becomes actively maintained again.
I'm using DSFML and it is one of the easiest. Though I had
strange issues like high ram usage and text not rendering. Though
the ease of use and performance is phenomenal.
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