About SDL2-gpu

[Miriam Ruiz]

Thanks for the research, Paul.

I didn't have any game or engine in mind when I packaged it, I am
playing with it myself. I also did some initial Cython bindings [1],
in case someone might find them useful. If at some point I managed to
develop something useful, I will put it in then, For the moment,
you're probably right. Most likely no one would really use it except
me.

Greetings,
Miry


[1] https://github.com/inniyah/TiledCythonTest/blob/master/src/cython/sdl2/SDL2_gpu.pxd

El dom, 30 may 2021 a las 1:25, Paul Wise (<pabs at debian.org>) escribió:
>
> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 3:43 PM Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>
> > I'm playing with SDL2-gpu [1], just for the sake of it, and in the
> > process of doing that I have created some initial packaging for it
> > [2]. I find it quite a nice library, but I am not sure whether it
> > would be useful to be added to the repo.
>
> I would only add it if something or someone needs it to be in Debian.
> So if you are packaging a game that depends directly or indirectly on
> it, or someone is writing a game using it and wants to depend on the a
> Debian package of it. Game developers using Debian packages is pretty
> rare, mostly they build it themselves and ship a copy of it with their
> game or statically link it into their game.
>
> SDL_gpu doesn't appear to very popular, on GitHub I only found one
> game, one image viewer and two game engines that use SDL_gpu. One of
> the game engines has a generic name that is too hard to search for
> reverse dependencies. For the other one I found several games that use
> it though.
>
> Game using SDL_gpu:
>
> https://github.com/strdavis/tetris-clone
>
> Image viewer using SDL_gpu:
>
> https://github.com/counterhunter/image-viewer
>
> Game engines using SDL_gpu:
>
> https://github.com/aoinoikaz/DK
> https://github.com/cafeinecake/hge2
>
> Games using HGE/hge2:
>
> https://github.com/codinpsycho/The_Siege
> https://github.com/joemikkel/TheVoid
> https://github.com/junodavis/Corners
> https://github.com/maximtsai/Family-Rescue
> https://github.com/stefanie5211/BacteriumGame
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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