Well, this site aspires to be the headquarters for all Linux game
development. What does that mean?
- Linux Game Programming Resources
- First of all it means that this site tries to provide a
comprehensive overview of the available programming resources like
game SDKs, image manipulation/generation software, special
documentation, programming tools etcetc.
- Communication between developers
- Development of Open Source game SDKs has to be coordinated to reduce
duplication of efforts and to ensure interoperability of their code,
game developers want to stay in contact with the authors of the
toolkits they use, game developers new to Linux need help from
experienced Linux developers and so on. This project provides a
mailing list for Linux game developers.
- Cooperation between projects
- Albeit somewhat a subset of the "Communication" thing,
this point is special, as it is the main reason why this site was
created.
- There are several projects out there aimed at making Linux a
better game platform and helping game developers to write games for
Linux, but not very long ago some of them didn't even know of each
other. So we started to discuss how we could cooperate as far as
possible while preserving the variety of tools and toolkits Linux
is famous for. The result of this discussion was that we created a
project that gives us an effective medium for communication and that
will take care about proper interoperability of our code, so that you
(as a game developer) can freely choose almost any combination of
libraries from our projects without having to care about compatibility.
What is it not?
- Finished ;)
- This site is relatively new and it will take some time until it
really can provide a comprehensive overview of the available
resources. Until then, it will focus on giving an impression of
what's happening in this area right now.
- A Site for game players
- This site is targeted at developers, so if you are mainly
interested in information concerning playing games,
http://www.linuxgames.com
will suit your needs much better.
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