Re: [Chicken-users] 3D games in Chicken

[Peter Keller]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:28:18AM +0000, john wrote:
> I think a game would be an excellent group project to test out the all
> round capabilities of Chicken. I would be interested to help in any
> network protocol design and development.

That would be pretty fun. I suppose I could do engine design or an asset
management library. I've done that stuff before.

Though, take my advice, no threading unless it is dirt obvious how it
works and has amazing benefit for the time investment. It is too hard
to debug and come to terms with the fact it might not ever be "right"
due to unreproducable race conditions.

Also, I'd say the first group project game should be something simple
so the requirements are plain as day and milestones are achievable in a
few months time each with hobby programming time. Something which didn't
involve flashy texture art would be a plus, unless some of us can draw.
(Most games these days are 5 programmers and 100 artists.)

-pete