Re: AdaGames

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:10:15 -0600, Enrico A. wrote:

> Ciao!
>     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 ?

IMO Ada would be useful for a wide variety of games (for exactly the
same reason it's useful for other stuff), and games are probably the
best domain for "advocacy" projects if you are trying to get people
interested in Ada, OSS, or whatever.

Probably picking a genre on the basis of what game *you* would like to
have is the best strategy for answering your question.  Think of a game
you've played and liked but always found yourself saying "this would be
lots better if you could do XYZ", and implement a version with XYZ.
That will help motivate you to keep perfecting the game even after
you've got the basic system working.

Good luck,

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas