How did you go about making this?

Hiro_Antagonist · #1 May 8th, 2005, 01:07 PM

With all due respect, there are much better places to be asking these questions than here. Your questions would be very fitting at http://www.gamedev.net/.

-Hiro_Antagonist

rayme · #2 August 18th, 2005, 02:07 PM

My biggest problem with C# and Direct3D is that they're not portable to any non-Microsoft platforms. We've got WinXP, Win2003, linux, and MacOSX in my house, and I'm always interested in making things cross-platform.

That's not everyone's cup of tea, of course. =)

Psitticine · #3 August 20th, 2005, 06:32 PM

Except for Win2003, that's the same mix we have here!

reverend · #4 September 14th, 2005, 06:50 AM

If you want cross-platform games, you should either try SDL and C++ (illwinter used this for dominions IIRC) or, if you prefer C#, have a look at MONO (www.mono-project.com) which gives you C# and runs on pretty much every system using the MONO runtime.

Ed Kolis · #5 September 16th, 2005, 05:49 PM

Java anyone?

http://java.sun.com
Very similar to C#, and cross-platform compatibility is built-in!

Hiro_Antagonist · #6 September 16th, 2005, 06:22 PM

FWIW, we've tenatively decided to build our future games on the PopCap Framework, which is now open-source. (http://developer.popcap.com/).

This means we'll still be bound to PCs for the forseeable future (though an eventual Mac port of the framework isn't out of the question), but on the upside, our future games will be faster, smaller, and will run on more machines than Land of Legends.

-Hiro_Antagonist