Writing Games
While playing games is certainly fun. Writing games that others play is just really cool. Here are links to help you get started writing Games on OpenSolaris.
If you are a C/C++ programmer, there are a variety of libraries to pick from to render game graphics. Such as,
Very Simple
| curses | a standard library for text graphics. See manpage. |
| ncurses | enhanced curses. See manpage. |
| OSF/Motif | a library to make X11 programming easier. CDE is based on this. |
| GTK | The GIMP Toolkit. An enhanced library for X11 programming. |
Advanced
| SDL | Simple Directmedia Layer. A multiplatform library designed for programming games. [CSW/PKG] |
| OGRE 3D | Open-source Graphics Rendering Engine. [SFE/BLD] |
| OpenGL | high performance graphics library. |
| OpenAL | cross-platform 3D audio API [SFE/BLD] |
| Cg | NVIDIA Cg Toolkit [SFE/BLD] |
| Cal3D | 3d character animation library [SFE/BLD] |
| Blender | 3D content creation suite [SFE/BLD] |
Java
If you haven't noticed, Java is not slow anymore. If fact it makes an excellent games platform. Below are some links to some cool Java API's suitable for games.
