nimforum mirror - Best 2D game engine for nim?

hcorion (orginal) [2016-07-31T20:47:59+02:00] view original

LOL, I can't beleive it, now we can have nim game engine wars :P. So which one is better? https://github.com/rnentjes/nim-ludens or https://github.com/Vladar4/nimgame ? Do they basically function the same? Which one has more support?

Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2016-07-31T21:03:19+02:00] view original

There is a fine tutorial by Dennis:

https://hookrace.net/blog/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-with-sdl2/

Arrrrrrrrr (orginal) [2016-07-31T22:23:08+02:00] view original

One hasn't received an updated for one year, and the other since 2012, probably they won't work out of the box (The downside of move fast, break things).

Vladar (orginal) [2016-08-01T09:12:45+02:00] view original

hcorion nimgame is deprecated since sdl2 came out. I just updated it to support Nim v0.14.2 and you could use it as a kind of reference though, but I plan to create sdl2-based engine in the future, when I'll get time for this.

rational (orginal) [2016-08-01T09:39:26+02:00] view original

vladar that would be awesome. Making a game with pure SDL2 is not really easy or fun to do, defenitely need this :p

Vladar (orginal) [2016-08-01T09:47:29+02:00] view original

rational, since there seems to be a demand for it, I'll try to carve out some time to start it sooner. Watch out for announcements.

UnnoTed (orginal) [2016-08-01T15:18:33+02:00] view original

Vladar, why not just make bindings for a already existing one like http://www.raylib.com/ ?

Vladar (orginal) [2016-08-01T15:44:30+02:00] view original

UnnoTed, because that way it's more interesting?

Libman (orginal) [2016-08-03T02:50:44+02:00] view original

I haven't dabbled in game programming since the 90s, but a quick look at the list of available engines shows many choices. I hope the Nim game dev ecosystem picks a good Copyfree-licensed C/C++ library (not zlib, etc) to focus on and makes good bindings. Godot seems to be a very strong contender.

hcorion (orginal) [2016-08-03T18:43:27+02:00] view original

Libman, I was actually looking for some mostly straight (SDL2, SFML etc. is OK) nim game engine, not using a pre-built engine. Vladar, I can't wait! I'll be checking the forums!

Libman (orginal) [2016-08-14T23:20:49+02:00] view original

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