SDL News (January 20, 2003)

It’s a new year and people have been busy!
Check out the new additions to the SDL website:

  • A new mailing list SDL-CVS has been set up for people interested in
    up-to-date mail when changes are made to SDL in CVS.
  • Wu Hao has contributed a Chinese translation of the SDL Introduction.
  • reaper2k2 has ported Quake 1 to the dreamcast.
  • Eternal Lands, a MMORPG still in development, has been added to the games page.
  • Easy Game Library, Library of C++ classes designed to provide easy
    development of games, has been added to the libraries page.
  • HappyPenguin.org has a game development library poll up, and it seems
    like SDL is very popular! :slight_smile:
  • BomberBall Z, a bomberman clone using a famous manga background, has been
    added to the games page.
  • SpaceBreakout, a simple Breakout game programmed in one day using the
    GameBlade, has been added to the games page.
  • UDP Blocks, Tetris-clone using SDL_mixer, has been added to the games page.
  • BuWarrior 1.0, it is a small and cool 3D action game with IA and amazing
    music, has been added to the games page.
  • http://adrix_cesar.tripod.com/
  • Battle Pong, A pong game made in SDL that still sucks because it’s pong,
    has been added to the games page.
  • Swift blocks, Game similar to Tetris, completly free and open source,
    with nice graphics and sound, has been added to the games page.
  • SDLClient of FreeCiv, Free clone of Civ/Civ2/Civ3, has been added to
    the games page.
  • G3D, Professional infrastructure for any 3D project, has been added to
    the libraries page.
  • Marryampic2, a memory cards game with sound for each pair, has been added
    to the games page.
  • ZEngine, 2D Game Engine using SDL (OpenGL for fast 2D), has been added to
    the libraries page.
  • Tolynn, Land of the Rising Sun, A 2D MMORPG based in Feudal Japan, has been
    added to the games page.
  • rlfc, multiplayer game in early development, has been added to the games page.
  • Tuxtank, a 2D tank game, has been added to the games page.
  • Feyna’s Quest, A shareware platform game with role-playing elements in a
    fantasy setting, has been added to the games page.
  • Dawnrazor, Advanced online strategy game using SDL/OpenGL, has been added
    to the games page.
  • C# bindings byWill Weisser have been added to the languages page.
  • Dernier Age (The Last Age), 3d strategy game in C++/OpenGL/SDL, has been
    added to the games page.
  • Tic-Tac-Toe, The final version of AtomicGames’ TicTacToe, has been added
    to the games page.
  • Lua bindings for SDL have been added to the languages page.
  • Objective C bindings for SDL have been added to the languages page.
  • AG Pong, A Small Pong Clone(Working Title) From AG(AtomicGames),
    has been added to the games page.
  • WaveGL, Wave Simulation Demo using SDL and openGL, has been added to
    the demos page.
  • VoxelRay, a simple Ray-Tracing demo in voxel-space, has been added to
    the demos page.
  • The Pike language has native support for SDL, and has been added to the
    langauges page.
  • flxplay, an FLX/FLC animation player, has been added to the demos page.
  • kiki the nano bot, 3D Puzzle Game, a mixture between Kula-World and Sokoban,
    has been added to the games page.
  • submarine, OpenGL demo with submarines, has been added to the games page.
  • Fire Graph, C++ Class to easily handle 2D, has been added to the libraries
    page.
  • Spieleprogrammierung mit der SDL in C++, a set of german tutorials giving
    the basics of using various SDL features, has been added to the tutorials
    page.
  • Jonathan Atkins has contributed excellent documentation for the SDL_image
    library.
  • Free Fallin’ Fred, Open His Chute Or He’ll Be Dead, has been added to the
    games page.
  • Deadly Rooms of Death, a puzzling game of dungeon exploration, has been
    added to the games page.
  • Star Shooter 3, one2one 2D shooting game written with SDL & OpenGL, has
    been added to the games page.
  • Slideshow, a portable SDL based presentation framework, has been added
    to the applications page.
  • Skull, platform game like MegaMan, has been added to the games page.
  • Commander Tux Duel, A funny 1on1 jump and run game written in C++,
    has been added to the games page.

Enjoy!
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment