[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The GAMES Project

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Jeffrey T. Read <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: The GAMES Project
System name: gamesproject
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

My project is the GNU GAMES project, a series of libraries and tools for game 
and multimedia developers. The project\'s flagship is the sprite32 library, a 
simple, compact (binary is under 20k stripped!), and efficient 2D animation 
library written in C and C++. The library can do sprite-based 2D animation for 
games, or simply act as a \"framebuffer on steroids\" for intensely graphical 
applications. With its \"SpriteImage\" display method and \"SpriteEvent\" event 
model, sprite32 will be able to target a variety of display and windowing 
systems. Special emphasis is being put on X11, OpenGL, and SDL, with Linux 
fbdev and Win32 DirectX support planned. In spite of this, simplicity and small 
size remain supreme goals of the project, as there are application niches 
(e.g., PDA games) which demand the development of such a compact library. Other 
libraries include osound, an object-oriented framework for music and sound 
effects playback.

The web space will be home not only to the libraries but small demos and simple 
games to help programmers to get started.

It already exists and you can see it at http://gnugames.sourceforge.net/. Since 
this is a GNU project my intention is to move its public presence from 
Sourceforge to savannah and resume development there.