YaGeS (Yet another Game engine (in Scala))

Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
(BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game engines?)

Cheers
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub <osmanpub@googlemail.com> wrote:

I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:

http://code.google.com/p/yages/

I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game. Please
pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you might
encounter.




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I'm watching this from afar. Of course, having documentation -- at least scaladocs -- would be helpful.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Rodrigo Cano <ioniviil@gmail.com> wrote:

Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
(BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game engines?)

Cheers
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub <osmanpub@googlemail.com> wrote:

I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:

http://code.google.com/p/yages/

I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game. Please
pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you might
encounter.




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I travel to the future all the time.

It's just a humorous reference to the proliferation of game engines on the
net. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yet_Another
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

Rodrigo Cano wrote:
>
> Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
> (BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game engines?)
>
> Cheers
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub wrote:
>
>>
>> I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/
>>
>> I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game.
>> Please
>> pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you
>> might
>> encounter.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29...
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>>
>>
>
>

OK, I've uploaded scala docs for both parts:

http://code.google.com/p/yages/downloads/list

I have considered producing design docs for the whole thing, but wondered if
the returns justified the effort involved. Besides David Brackeen goes over
the original project in more detail in his book, see:

http://www.brackeen.com/javagamebook/

Daniel Sobral wrote:
>
> I'm watching this from afar. Of course, having documentation -- at least
> scaladocs -- would be helpful.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Rodrigo Cano wrote:
>
>> Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
>> (BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game engines?)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/
>>>
>>> I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game.
>>> Please
>>> pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you
>>> might
>>> encounter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> View this message in context:
>>> http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29...
>>> Sent from the Scala - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

I understood the humorous part, what I mis understood was that there were other SCALA game engines out there. I downloaded it, and tried the examples from the readme file but it seems that it is not compatible with scala beta RC-6, which led me to a method not found exception.


On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:31 AM, osmanpub <osmanpub@googlemail.com> wrote:

OK, I've uploaded scala docs for both parts:

http://code.google.com/p/yages/downloads/list

I have considered producing design docs for the whole thing, but wondered if
the returns justified the effort involved. Besides David Brackeen goes over
the original project in more detail in his book, see:

http://www.brackeen.com/javagamebook/


Daniel Sobral wrote:
>
> I'm watching this from afar. Of course, having documentation -- at least
> scaladocs -- would be helpful.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Rodrigo Cano <ioniviil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
>> (BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game engines?)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub <osmanpub@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/
>>>
>>> I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game.
>>> Please
>>> pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you
>>> might
>>> encounter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> View this message in context:
>>> http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29-tp27080382p27080382.html
>>> Sent from the Scala - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral
>
> I travel to the future all the time.
>
>

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Dear YaGeS Creator,
How does using YaGeS compare with using jME from Scala?

Best wishes,
--greg

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:31 AM, osmanpub <osmanpub@googlemail.com> wrote:

OK, I've uploaded scala docs for both parts:

http://code.google.com/p/yages/downloads/list

I have considered producing design docs for the whole thing, but wondered if
the returns justified the effort involved. Besides David Brackeen goes over
the original project in more detail in his book, see:

http://www.brackeen.com/javagamebook/


Daniel Sobral wrote:
>
> I'm watching this from afar. Of course, having documentation -- at least
> scaladocs -- would be helpful.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Rodrigo Cano <ioniviil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
>> (BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game engines?)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub <osmanpub@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/
>>>
>>> I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game.
>>> Please
>>> pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you
>>> might
>>> encounter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> View this message in context:
>>> http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29-tp27080382p27080382.html
>>> Sent from the Scala - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral
>
> I travel to the future all the time.
>
>

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Hi,

I read that book too! I took many ideas from it and from "Killer Game Programming in Java".

I wasn't able to make it work either :(. I will try to compile from source when I have some spare time and see how that goes.

I'm working on a Scala wrapper for Slick2D in order to use OpenGL, I'm using most of the low level stuff in Slick2D to handle the images and texture buffering and rendering but I'm building something like a Scene Graph tree of some sort.

Good luck
--Tomás

According to the wiki entry: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMonkey_Engine)

jMonkey Engine (jME) is a high-performance 3D game engine, written entirely
in Java. OpenGL is supported via LWJGL, with JOGL support in development.
For sound, OpenAL is supported. Input via the keyboard, mouse, and other
controllers is also supported.

Mine is 2D, not high-performance, written entirely in Scala (2.8) and
currently doesn't support Open AL nor GL. It does have keyboard and mouse
support though.

Meredith Gregory wrote:
>
> Dear YaGeS Creator,
>
> How does using YaGeS compare with using jME from Scala?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --greg
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 1:31 AM, osmanpub wrote:
>
>>
>> OK, I've uploaded scala docs for both parts:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/downloads/list
>>
>> I have considered producing design docs for the whole thing, but wondered
>> if
>> the returns justified the effort involved. Besides David Brackeen goes
>> over
>> the original project in more detail in his book, see:
>>
>> http://www.brackeen.com/javagamebook/
>>
>>
>> Daniel Sobral wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm watching this from afar. Of course, having documentation -- at
>> least
>> > scaladocs -- would be helpful.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Rodrigo Cano
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
>> >> (BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game
>> engines?)
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game.
>> >>> Please
>> >>> pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you
>> >>> might
>> >>> encounter.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> View this message in context:
>> >>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29...
>> >>> Sent from the Scala - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel C. Sobral
>> >
>> > I travel to the future all the time.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context:
>> http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29...
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>>
>>
>
>

A google search reveals the stack overflow page which lists the usual
suspects (in Java):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1048801/is-there-any-game-engine-in-s...

There seems to be a couple of scalabox2d projects out there at the moment.

I've tested against: Scala version 2.8.0.Beta1-RC6 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server
VM, Java 1.6.0_0)
downloaded from this link:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.internals/2663

And tested the jar and the game loads OK. Tested examples.SpriteTest1 and
examples.SpriteTest2 and both are also OK.

Have you tried the nightly builds (which are newer) as listed in the INSTALL
file?

Rodrigo Cano wrote:
>
> I understood the humorous part, what I mis understood was that there were
> other SCALA game engines out there. I downloaded it, and tried the
> examples
> from the readme file but it seems that it is not compatible with scala
> beta
> RC-6, which led me to a method not found exception.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:31 AM, osmanpub wrote:
>
>>
>> OK, I've uploaded scala docs for both parts:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/downloads/list
>>
>> I have considered producing design docs for the whole thing, but wondered
>> if
>> the returns justified the effort involved. Besides David Brackeen goes
>> over
>> the original project in more detail in his book, see:
>>
>> http://www.brackeen.com/javagamebook/
>>
>>
>> Daniel Sobral wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm watching this from afar. Of course, having documentation -- at
>> least
>> > scaladocs -- would be helpful.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Rodrigo Cano
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Great news, as I am also interested in developoing games in scala :).
>> >> (BTW: yet another? where are the "we are the first" scala game
>> engines?)
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, osmanpub
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> I've created a simple 2d game engine that I'd like to share:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/yages/
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm interested in hearing feedback on your experiences with the game.
>> >>> Please
>> >>> pay attention to the INSTALL file, it might address some problems you
>> >>> might
>> >>> encounter.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> View this message in context:
>> >>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29...
>> >>> Sent from the Scala - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel C. Sobral
>> >
>> > I travel to the future all the time.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context:
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>>
>>
>
>

See post:

http://old.nabble.com/YaGeS-%28Yet-another-Game-engine-%28in-Scala%29%29...

For possible solutions to your problem.

Slick seems to be a good candidate for a scala rewrite, along with LWJGL
later.
Keep us posted on how you get on, would be nice to use another scala game
lib.

Tomás Lázaro wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I read that book too! I took many ideas from it and from "Killer Game
> Programming in Java".
>
> I wasn't able to make it work either :(. I will try to compile from source
> when I have some spare time and see how that goes.
>
> I'm working on a Scala wrapper for Slick2D in order to use OpenGL, I'm
> using
> most of the low level stuff in Slick2D to handle the images and texture
> buffering and rendering but I'm building something like a Scene Graph tree
> of some sort.
>
> Good luck
> --Tomás
>
>