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**PaulR** · 12-08-2013, 08:54 PM

Hi, I think I am human and strongly believe that, if this is the case, I am not a Viagra salesman. I may of course be wrong. I am a recent downloader of Lazarus and am currently peeking at the undergarments of Object Pascal, having just poked my head through the dense hedgerow lining the well trodden path of Basic->Z80 ASM->C/C++. I've never become best friends with C++, but it makes me cry less often the more I use it. OP looks like fun.

**WILL** · 13-08-2013, 10:54 AM

Hello PaulR and welcome to PGD!

I think you'll find that Object Pascal is BFF material!

Many here enjoy making games with it and continue to do so today. Some of those folks even make a pretty decent living from it too!

I myself am working with another community member on a commercial game for the new OUYA gaming console. So as you can see there is lots of opportunity for the language in your game development. Lots of tools and lots of different target platforms. Most of course, supporting Windows.

**Carântula** · 14-08-2013, 07:10 PM

Hi.
My name is Guilherme and i'm from São Paulo, Brazil.

**WILL** · 14-08-2013, 09:19 PM

Hi and welcome to PGD!

T_T_F · 07-09-2013, 09:36 AM

Hello everybody
I dont have much experience in game programming so i cant find a good way to start with. Can anybody please give me some good links or something like that(books,engine)?
Sorry about my english I am from Switzerland.
T_T_F

holiveros · 24-09-2013, 09:23 PM

Hello mates,

A humble Pascal lover here, from Mexicali, México.

Have a nice day,
Humberto

**SilverWarior** · 25-09-2013, 09:23 PM

Helo holiveros!
Welcome to PGD. I hope your stay here would be as pleasant as posible.

Please do some more browsing through the forums so autompromotion system can kick in and unmoderate you so you will be able to freely post around the forums.

**WILL** · 26-09-2013, 04:54 AM

Hey all new members!

Don't be shy, if you have signed up, but haven't posted yet, why not get out there and post something? This is YOUR community and it's really what you make of it. So feel free to share and strike up conversation and learn all the tried and true secrets of the Pascal programmers' way of making games using this wonderful language.

**worm** · 06-11-2013, 04:17 PM

Hi!

I'm worm. I've been programming since I was ~12. Started with bat files to make DOS games work, moved on to Basic/C/VB. I had the chance to learn pascal back in high school, but decided to take C instead as pascal was 'lame'. I regret that decision!

Fast forward heaps of years and here I am, poking with Pascal for some stuff I want to do at work! Seems like a good fit.

Best way to learn something is to make stuff, imo. So, I'm making stuff! But it comes at a cost of "Where to start?!".

I've been lurking the last few days, but alas, I'm not sure what to make of the pascal libraries for game development available that are cross platform. Is everything actually dead? Is there something that I should be using for OSX/Windows/Linux that is better than the rest, readily available, and actually compiles without tweaks on mavericks?

**worm** · 07-11-2013, 02:35 PM

Hi I'm Worm.

I'm pretty certain I wrote a whole thing about me here yesterday, but it's gone. Or maybe I didn't. I'm not sure about any thing any more....

Anyways, attempt 2!

Been programming since I was ~12. I started with bat files, then some quick basic, and quickly moved into C. We did basic and pascal in high school, but I skipped pascal claiming it was stupid. Was I ever wrong!

I'm currently making a game in my spare time in pascal, just picking it up as I go. I'm also working on utilizing lazarus and freepascal with my job

We shall see where it goes!