lundi 9 mars 2009

KGLengine+ Box2d the physicsEngine

Hi all !
Maybe you have already play Crayon Physics Games ? So, this games use the fabulous Box2D library.

So I decided to test it in KGLEngine.... And it's amazing how Box2d and KGLengine are complementary...
So, look the video ( click on picture)


So, now we have to create some class and make compatibility between eigen and Box2d.

Important :
I will create a website about our hight level game api ( KGLengine = opengl render, KALengine = sound render based on openAL, KInputEngine=control input)... I want a generic name which regroup all sub library, a bit like "directX" or like Löve . So I invite you to send me your Idea for this name.

10 commentaires:

Diederik a dit…

No idea for the name yet, but I'd vote to see something which fits into these categories:

physics / science like:
- plasma
- phonon
- solid
- decibel
- oxygen
- air

something cool like:
- nepomuk
- akonadi
- strigi

DrIDK a dit…

physics : ( speed particules)
Tackyon ?
gluon?
nucleons ?

gliale ( brain cell)
globe Engine
Glion
kge : kde game engine
kage : kde game engine ! oh nice!

will a dit…

I think Diederik's idea of sticking with a physics theme is great.

What about Kaon?

It's a quantum particle with the symbol K and it fulfills the requirement of sounding cool too.

Antonio a dit…

Kool? :)

Olivier a dit…

Nomocage => NO MOre CArds GamE.
Twix => That WIll roX
egg => Easy Game Gate

Daniel a dit…

@will:

I think Kaon sounds cool!

But now to some of my ideas:
Hm, let me think...

Maybe DirektX? ;-)

or:
VisualK

ok, now to some serious ones:
[K|C]ognition
Phantom
[K|G]amble
Aspe[k|c]t
Kame (not very fancy)

sorted after my own favorisation.
If i've got another idea, I will let you know.

leinir a dit…

My suggestion: Planck - the shortest distance between idea and finished game ;)

(also, i actually kinda like kage... it means cake in Danish ;) - it's a bit late, of course, to be playing on that particular joke, and we'll be stuck with it for a while)

@Oliver - i like the egg idea - except there's already a game engine with that name (well, it's actually eggs, but still) - developed in part by myself ;) http://leinir.dk/orzam/ <-- It was named that way so we could call our report last semester "The Creation of The ORZAM Game Using Eggs and Bacon" (ORZAM = Oblivious Rampaging Zombies And Monkeys, Bacon = Bad Ass Creator Of Nodes, Eggs = we couldn't come up with one ;) )
Twix - not going to happen... good name, troublesome trademark ;)

Diederik a dit…

Is there also some physics word which also represents "play" or "jumping around"?

So far I can't find a word which emcapsulates both "visual effects", "sound" and "control".

notriddle a dit…

I like Phantom! KGameEngine also makes sense :|.

DrIDK a dit…

Thanks for your idea! The choose is not easy! I like kaon, aspect .
But Gluon has sens, because its a particle which stick 3 quarks... like our 3 project : KGL, KAL, KCL...