From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
Subject: Re: AdaGames
Date: 28 Mar 2002 07:13:08 -0800
Date: 2002-03-28T15:13:09+00:00 [thread overview]
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muaddib@digibank.it (Enrico A.) wrote in message news:<98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com>...
> in your opinion what kind of game can show the power of Ada ?
> a sport game (soccer, nhl), strategic game (like command&conquer),
> flight (Ace combat,Ms flight simulator), rps (Doom, Quake, Halo),
> Adventure (Zak McKracken:))), Day of the tentacle), rpg (Baldur's
> gate) etc ?
There's no reason why one couldn't do any or all of the above.
Personally, I'd like to see someone do a FPS, just to show how Ada
gives you high speed in a safe OO language. But if they didn't know
their way around FPS's, they'd be quite likely to show the opposite.
If I can ever get my other projects into maintanence mode, I'd like to
do a game myself. I'd probably pick a strategic game, because they
require the least work, and for me are the most fun. Also, a 2d
strategic game could probably get by with a user interface built with
standard GUI components, and thus could be made portable (although a
3D game could mostly do the same thing using OpenGL). That would show
off another of Ada's advantages.
--
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2002-03-28 11:10 AdaGames Enrico A.
2002-03-28 12:29 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 14:30 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-28 16:47 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 17:55 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-28 18:48 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 19:13 ` AdaGames Stephen Leake
2002-03-28 21:58 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-29 7:10 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-03-29 20:25 ` AdaGames Erik Sigra
2002-03-28 16:00 ` AdaGames chris.danx
2002-03-28 16:27 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-03-28 20:49 ` AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-28 22:02 ` AdaGames Preben Randhol
2002-04-02 23:11 ` AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-28 18:11 ` AdaGames chris.danx
2002-03-28 19:21 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-03-29 7:20 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-03-29 14:28 ` AdaGames Wes Groleau
2002-03-29 14:51 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-03-28 20:39 ` AdaGames (SDL) Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-28 15:07 ` AdaGames Marin David Condic
2002-03-29 2:14 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-03-29 14:15 ` AdaGames Marin David Condic
2002-03-30 1:43 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-04-01 14:23 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-01 16:57 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-04-01 22:18 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-01 22:42 ` AdaGames Darren New
2002-03-28 15:13 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2002-03-29 7:24 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-03-28 20:55 ` AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-28 22:47 ` AdaGames Randy Brukardt
2002-03-29 14:53 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-02 2:05 ` AdaGames Randy Brukardt
2002-03-29 15:08 ` AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-03-28 20:59 ` Nethack! (was): AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-29 14:13 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-01 8:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-01 15:04 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-02 9:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-02 14:54 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-03 6:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-02 18:30 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 7:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-03 15:06 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 4:40 ` tmoran
2002-04-04 6:14 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-04 14:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 6:10 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-04 14:26 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 6:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-04 16:46 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-05 7:37 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-04-03 9:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-03 15:50 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 16:14 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 16:09 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-04 16:48 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 16:57 ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-04-04 18:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-05 5:14 ` SLOC-wars Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-05 8:36 ` SLOC-wars Bobby D. Bryant
2002-04-05 14:37 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-08 13:35 ` SLOC-wars Ted Dennison
2002-04-08 14:12 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-09 14:15 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-05 14:25 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-07 19:07 ` SLOC-wars John R. Strohm
2002-04-08 14:59 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-08 15:13 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-05 22:51 ` SLOC-wars John R. Strohm
2002-04-06 22:19 ` SLOC-wars Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-06 23:17 ` SLOC-wars Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-08 14:35 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-09 15:04 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-10 13:39 ` SLOC-wars Ted Dennison
2002-04-10 14:54 ` SLOC-wars Marin David Condic
2002-04-07 18:58 ` SLOC-wars John R. Strohm
2002-04-08 15:06 ` SLOC-wars Wes Groleau
2002-04-05 14:43 ` Nethack! (was): AdaGames Ted Dennison
2002-04-05 14:51 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-05 20:41 ` Metrics! (was) " Wes Groleau
2002-04-06 22:11 ` Kent Paul Dolan
2002-04-08 13:29 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 17:09 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-04-04 14:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-03 17:17 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-04-04 16:19 ` Preben Randhol
2002-04-04 16:47 ` SLOC! (was Nethack! (was): AdaGames) Wes Groleau
2002-04-01 18:05 ` Nethack! (was): AdaGames Ralph Moeritz
2002-04-02 9:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-03-29 1:52 ` AdaGames Adrian Hoe
2002-03-29 7:29 ` AdaGames Bobby D. Bryant
2002-04-02 23:43 ` Nethack (again)!: AdaGames Kent Paul Dolan
2002-03-29 18:40 ` AdaGames Pascal Obry
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