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[KikkyMonk]

What programs are you using to code/compile the game? Is it all your custom libraries or are you using some off the shelf ones?

I dabbled with some games in high school on my calculator (of all things) which had a very basic BASIC-type language. I barely got the interface together before my calculator ran out of memory  

Anywho,
Dave

[Keiseth]

I'm curious as to what Toady uses as well. Up until now I've just figured to make something like Dwarf Fortress you have to sacrifice people daily to Cthulhu. =\

[Peristarkawan]

quote:Originally posted by Keiseth:
<STRONG>I'm curious as to what Toady uses as well. Up until now I've just figured to make something like Dwarf Fortress you have to sacrifice people daily to Cthulhu. =\</STRONG>

Well, the game does have tentacle demons...

[X]

MSVC6, OpenGL, zlib, fmod.

If you want to get back into dabbling game-making, I'd strongly suggesting picking a modern dynamic language with an interactive interpreter. Can get something satisfying, of the kind of calculator-game level, very quickly with hardly any code, but also move up to large scale stuff without really hitting any major barriers.

X

[KikkyMonk]

Is Toady using C or C++? I thought he said he was updating some of his code to C++ but I could have been mistaken.

MS is giving away their express line of compilers although not sure what limitations it would have on developing a full stand alone app like DF.

I did mess with djgpp bitd as well along with some limited graphics libraries.

[ May 20, 2007: Message edited by: KikkyMonk ]

[Toady One]

I actually looked into updating to express, and the optimizations seem to have been improved since whenever MSVC6 came out (when I moved the project over, had an FPS jump from 70 to 90).  On the downside, it doesn't have a resource editor, so the little dwarf picture doesn't appear, and I don't know enough about resources to make it work on my own.

[ May 20, 2007: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[KikkyMonk]

MS is giving away their visual studio professional 8 to any student. I'm only taking a single class at my local community college and I was able to sign up for it. The program is called dreamspark. It can't be used for commercial ventures, but would DF qualify as that?

-Dave

[Fieari]

Yeah, resources are a freakin' pain to work with by hand.  Ugh.  I preferred simply loading the data as a file, but that's not always possible of course.

[Oarfish]

You'l also get openmp with newer version of Visual C++, as well as free omptimisations for newer processor architectures. Make it easier for you to murder more of our cores  

[Oarfish]

Oh, and you can get an external resource editor over here