Thread: Best thing to use for 2D Games.

Quote: Originally Posted by autorelease "I'm going to write a game in OpenCL" makes no sense. Hah, its all in interpretation. Ah the english language. I'm well aware of What OpenCL is. Oh and, I had a talk to the other two guys. We had an idea and talked to our Computing teacher for the last time *Sniff. We ended up with C++ Core with SDL with the AI, controls, sound etc. But Image rendering would be a local...

Quote: Originally Posted by MorphingDragon OpenCL is a general language, it is just marketed as an alternative to CUDA. It can be used to program anything that can add 2 + 2. OpenCL is not a language. It is an API. Although it did require the addition of one or two things to the C language, calling it a language is probably taking it a bit far.

Quote: Originally Posted by MorphingDragon I'm well aware of What OpenCL is. Your responses strongly suggest otherwise, but whatever. Good luck with your project.

Quote: Originally Posted by MorphingDragon That doesn't matter, I'm making the Mac Version, Jakes making the Windows Version in C# and John's making the Linux Version. Its for a portfolio, the University wont care. Yeah, but it _will_ be the same game, won't it? So if all of you combine your efforts and write your game using OpenGL with, say, C/C++, you'll save lots of time.

My previous post was made lacking some of the details you've provided since then. If you have a whole year, this seems a lot more feasible. You really need to exercise project management and design for a long project like this. Personally, I would decide amongst the three of you whose going to be the "lead", that will deal with tracking project milestones, etc. You need to set up source control, plan goals along the way...

I'd be interested to see which (if any) AI algorithms vectorize properly. Neural nets maybe?

Quote: Originally Posted by MorphingDragon That doesn't matter, I'm making the Mac Version, Jakes making the Windows Version in C# and John's making the Linux Version. Its for a portfolio, the University wont care. Each comfortable on the their own respective platform no doubt. I'd also suggest showing some programming and team skills by doing cross-platform game code. Each one of you would then do your systems specific...

Quote: Originally Posted by MorphingDragon Okay, so some of my friends and I are designing a side scrolling game as a University example. (We want to take an advanced course and we need to show previous skill) They want me to make a Mac version but I don't have enough experience to answer my question myself. Whats better for a 2D side scroller. OpenGL or Cocoa Functions like CI/QE? In terms of performance really, I don't really care...

I would have to definitely say Box2D. its all in c++ & is cross platform.

Quote: Originally Posted by MorphingDragon OpenCL can be used to program the CPU as well. For a Sidescroller it would be overkill but not for something that has incredibly complex Physics or AI it would be an option. Argh, yet another person who misunderstands OpenCL. Yes, OpenCL kernels can run on a CPU. Yes, the OpenCL kernel language is similar to C. However, OpenCL has no interactive capabilities. It's impossible to write an entire...