Game Idea

["Brian Holley" <comp_brain@hotmail.com>]

Hey people-

Dang, forget to check email for 1 day and I have 30 or so messages... geez.

Anyway, I like the idea of working cooperatively on a demo, simple game.
I would really like to see this become a success.  I hope that this project 
can begin and end better than the AVGI (A very good idea) project did.  That 
might have been before some of you joined this list, but I digress.

Anyway, writing a simple game isn't that hard.  On my webpage I have some 
demo programs that I wrote doing just that in DirectX.  One is a 2D RPG 
style world demo, another is an Atari style side scrolling shooter.  Both 
can be obtained here: http://vidgamez.iwarp.com/gameprog.html

As for my position on OpenGL/DirectX... I have worked with both relatively 
extensively, and you really can't compare them for what we would be doing.  
OpenGL is needlessly complex if all you're doing is 2D graphics.  DirectX 
does have a 2D API, but is only useful to those with Windows.  Since this 
project would be a 2D project (hopefully), we SHOULD NOT use OpenGL.  
Neither should we use DirectDraw, because many people don't have Windows.

I would suggest, instead, that we use DJGPP with the Allegro library.  I 
personally haven't worked a lot with it, but I've seen simple demos and I 
know it can be great.  I believe it is also a cross platform API...  Anyway, 
DJGPP and Allegro can both be obtained free (they are freeware) at 
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp

I will keep up to date on this project and would like to help as much as my 
limited schedule will allow.

Please excuse the length of this email, but I had alot to say in one email.
Thanks,
-Brian
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