@@ -15,3 +15,13 @@ To install XGame on your system, just run the traditional: ./configure make sudo make install + +== Long Term == + +For those that are curious or poking around, XGame is part of a longer vision by singpolyma and psycotica0 +to start a company that does game development and distribution. Our vision is to help other developers +create and distribute / sell games to a market they might not othewise be able to reach. + +While the code is this repo is subject to the COPYING file, we would also ask that the community abide by +the spirit of FrieNDA while we get our product ready for launch. Everyone will benefit once the network +is up and able to be used by developers to distribute their games. README @@ -1,2 +1,49 @@ -* Scrollable background -* EventListeners needs to wrap the new event stuff in rubygame2.4 -- the rubygame stuff is ugly raw though +Run `git grep -e TODO: -e XXX: -e FIXME:` to see notes about cleanup in the source. + +== Roadmap == + +== General == + +* Pick names for company and products. XGame is kind of random, and while good on Google, all related domains are taken. +* Get domain and website +* Get people to test stuff as more of it becomes available +* Run contests to get people interested in developing for the platform? + +=== For library === + +* Scrollable background (psycotica0 working on this?) +* EventListeners needs to wrap the new event stuff in rubygame2.4 -- the rubygame stuff is ugly raw though (Low priority until rubygame2.4 is official) +* Music/SFX wrapper/demo/tests? +* Board game-style demo + other demos +* Continue to improve self-documentation of code and RDoc + +* Python port +* DOMScripting (aka JavaScript) port +* C port +* C++ port +* Java port? + +== For packager == + +* Package Rubygame, Chipmunk, XGame, and demos as *.deb and *.rpm i386, AMD64, PPC, x86 for Windows, and source +** Include the two extension files as defined at <http://github.com/singpolyma/xgame/wikis/package-file-extensions> +* Set up an APT repository somewhere +** Set up MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and GPG verification +* Test with apt-get +* Write prototype script to install from *.deb, *.rpm, or APT repo (with OAuth support for APT) +** Test security (only authorized accounts download certain packages) +* Set up gratis and non-gratis repos +** Test end-to-end installing a "purchased" game with gratis dependencies +* Get nice installer environment and GUI in C and Tk + +== For editor == + +* Prototype editor +** User can add sprites +** User can move sprites around +** User can assign mass, and bind basic controls right from GUI +** User can set backgrounds, air resistance, and gravity +** Provide basic default behaviours (moving platforms) +** Allow binding and storage of arbitrary code in the target language +* Decide on output/storage format (may not want to store as code, parsing is hard) +* Get nice installer and GUI in C and Tk TODO 9f2ef8d0ce367d010b2e6bc8fac92d5f4453d034 Stephen Paul Weber singpolyma@singpolyma.net http://github.com/singpolyma/xgame/commit/fe17a4a4ea7e211078ba74e70af8ab527dfb2ab9 fe17a4a4ea7e211078ba74e70af8ab527dfb2ab9 2008-11-14T21:51:36-08:00 2008-11-14T21:51:36-08:00 Full roadmap and better description of project 48239465b6a5cfedfe498ac6f08d3edcfce7efbe Stephen Paul Weber singpolyma@singpolyma.net