Introduce Yourself...

clayasaurus · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 857

This is for any new users to introduce yourself, and say why you are using ArcLib, if you feel inclined.

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I'm Clay Smith, started a with D a couple of years ago. For my first project, I had to write bindings for libraries manually, until derelict came along. Started out with ClayTek 3D, had a basic editor going. However, 3d games are a little too time consuming for 1 person so I moved into the 2d scene.

ArcLib is just a collection of technologies that I program for myself for my games as I need them, and is open sourced if others find them useful.

I'm also very close to finishing school. I think I might try to create some little games, soon. Thinking of creating my own website perhaps, but dsource gets the job done pretty well.

zzzzrrr · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 139 Location: Washington, DC

deadimp · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 28

I'm deadimp, and I plan on using ArcLib to write a MegaMan X fan game.

I've written a few MegaMan X 'engines' a while back, two in Game Maker, one in C++ (with my own game engine...), but they never got too far. Hopefully now, with a little more programming experience, I can make something robust, a little more easily maintainable and manageable, so that I can actually finish it!
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> MegaMan X Crossfire - MegaMan X fan game

Beginning D; Basic experience in PHP, C++, Java, C#, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VB

rbb459 · Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 1

I'm an old-time C/C++ programmer interested in employing ArcLib to develop games as a hobby. It seems to me that D/Tango/ArcLib is truly a killer combination for quickly producing decent games.

I'm also interested in contributing to the development of ArcLib itself if this is allowed. Is the development community open or closed?

clayasaurus · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 857

rbb459, the development community is very open, and contributing is very much encouraged.

SirAlaran · Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 84 Location: Silicon Valley

I'm Brian and I'm here for two reasons:
1) D is amazing
2) Arclib seems like it will take a lot of work out of game programming

My eventual plan is to create a game that is sort of a cross between Megaman X and Super Metroid. I plan on doing the art work myself in Blender and then rendering the models to 2d sprites. (Current version of the player character)

At the moment I'm focusing on the art and map editor for the game while waiting for an updated 64-bit D compiler.
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Current projects: Project Fermitas, Arctographer tile map editor, Arclib game library.
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clayasaurus · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 857

Merkoth in a previous thread says: I'll just say that the name's Ivan aka Merkoth and that I'm just starting with D / Tango / ArcLib.

joelcnz · Joined: 23 Feb 2009 Posts: 76

Hi, I'm Joel,
I'm a New Zealander. I started computer programming when I was 9, (I'm 30 as I write this post). I programmed on Amstrad BASIC 1.1. On the PC I programmed in QBASIC, then C, some C++.

Now I've programmed D for years now, and have been using the DAllegro library, but I want to learn Arc, DAllegro isn't object oriented, (and has slow graphics, I think Arc is faster).

I've also programmed C# and Java in for University, (which I'm still at, at the moment any way).

With all that programming, I still can't seem to program very well.