Re: [Adonthell-general] Adonthell French Meetic Report - GUI, SDL, Clanlib

[David White]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 13:05, Kai Sterker wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 23:52:48 +0100 Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>
> > The issue is, I think it'd be better to concentrate the efforts more
> > on actual game development and less on the alternative aspects - for
> > this we can use what already exist. Kinda utopic I know, but I'd like
> > 0.4 to be released, say, before 2005! ;)
> 
> Hm. I never felt that the programming was the problem (unless we talk
> items), but more the artwork and writing. At least for v0.3 the code was
> ready long before the gfx and dialogues were. But of course, the faster
> the code gets done, the sooner writers and artists have to start working
> hard to catch up with the programmers :).

In my opinion, changing frameworks is not a good idea unless you have a
very very good idea why you're doing it, and have experience with the
alternative frameworks. SDL looks worse because you've got experience
using it, and know all its problems. I'm sure that ClanLib, and any
other framework, has just as many problems that don't become apparent
until you have had extensive experience with the library.

I have been looking through the Adonthell code, and there is alot of
carefully thought-out logic in there. Imho, effort is best spent
building on this foundation, rather than having to rewrite half the
logic porting it to another framework which doesn't have any definitive
known advantages.


> Oh, and while we're talking about coding: I guess I could work with
> David on the character/item/inventory complex. One doing the low-level
> stuff, the other taking care of an editor. I wanted to finish dlgedit
> first, but as it is in a usable state again, it can wait. Only problem
> is, I won't have too much time this month, as I also have exams in a
> couple of weeks.

Sounds good - if you could point me to a repository of documentation on
the topic that have been made so far, I'll have a look at them.

Cheers,

-David.

> 
> Kai
> 
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