I've started a project like this, which is just in it's early development stages. What I aimed to do was provide a simple setup for someone to use, use Lua (as it's quicker than Python) for the scripting language, and make it free, and/or possibly open source. There's one that David Greenwood of GMA wrote, but from what I understand he wants a few thousand for it. The goal with my engine is three-fold: First, I want to be able to make a bit of cash if someone sells the game. Say, $5 per game. Second, if someone would like to create a free game, they are free to do so. Last, I want to make this easy to use with good complete concise documentation. I don't know of any open source game engines for accessibility, you could use something that wasn't so big on 3-d rendering but had a good audio setup for something like this, accessibility is just audio after all, and there doesn't need to be anything special to make a game accessible that a decent engine couldn't do. There is also XNA with C#, if you like c#. I don't mind it so much, I've always wanted to get around to writing my own archiver for it though, since it only plays WMA files (and those are kind of big). So, I hope some of this rambling helped.
On 1/12/2011 10:15 AM, Lex wrote:
Hi Storm, 12.01.2011 18:32, Storm Dragon пишет:I am also interested in the topic, so I searched something like "3d game engine architecture" and found some books on the subject to read: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Engine-Architecture-Applications-ebook/dp/B001C4QKD4 http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Engine-Architecture-Charles-Development/dp/1584504730I have searched for this on Google but not really found what I am looking for.And lots of books on the subject is here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4621536/Game_Design_eBooks_PackI dreamed about creating a game engine for audio games from the beginning of my programmer story, since I started to learn programming. I made a couple of attempts but newer finished my work because of different reasons such as change of major language (from Delphi to C++), lack of time, etc. Finally, I decided that such a task is almost impossible to achieve by one person with limited time resources (I am taking a degree at the university on software engineering). Last months my interest on the subject has even increased. Now I am researching different connected topics (like how to bind C++ code to python nicely) etc. During my previous attempts to build an engine I have learned a lot and I hope that one day I will be able to finish my work.Yes. Game engine consists of several subsystems (sound, events, input, physics, network, scripting - to name some of them) and some abstraction which connects all of that together (to make it an engine, not only a package of libraries). The last part is, IMO, the most important: there exist a lot of libraries helping in game creation which can help to develop audio games, but there isn't some layer which presents all that stuff in way, which allows end-developer to concentrate on the game logic, instead of problems like "how to move my sounds when the object moves" or "how to bind keys/joystick/mouse to my functions", "how to invent a yet-another-game-saving-restoring-feature" etc.I guess my question is, what is involved in a game engine? I assume it makes writing games easier, and it is based off already existing programming languages with functions and/or objects to make game creation easier.Consider joining me and collaborate on this. My target language is C++ (for the core of the engine) and python for scripting.I know there are several audio game companies out there, and in an attempt to get more of them to do cross platform work, I was considering starting work on a game engine.I guess pygame is a game engine,I believe that pygame is a set of libraries, not an engine.but it is mainly designed for sighted play. So if I wrote an engine could I build it using pygame as the backbone, and just make it easier to add sound generating objects?I don't think that will be enough.starting from vista, DirectX no more supports hardware accelerated sound, leaving one only with openal as a wide-accessible alternative for using hardware sound.Would it be better to do some platform checking and use openal in *nux and directx in Windows?Then you might look at some existing open-source graphic game engines and extend one of them to help developing accessible games.One thing that would be really awesome is to make it easy to make graphical games with accessibility. My ultimate dream is to have games that are accessible for everyone, not just blind or just sighted users.Lex __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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