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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: AdaGames
Date: 28 Mar 2002 07:13:08 -0800
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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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