View Poll Results: What tools are you currently using to write your games with?

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  • Delphi

    13 37.14%
  • Free Pascal

    18 51.43%
  • Lazarus

    19 54.29%
  • Delphi Prism / Oxygene for .NET

    0 0%
  • Oxygene for Java

    3 8.57%
  • Oxygene for Mac/iOS (Nougat Beta)

    0 0%
  • Smart Mobile Studio

    2 5.71%
  • Other (Tell us please...)

    6 17.14%
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Thread: What tools are you currently using to makes games with these days? - 2013

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  1. #1
    I develop my GUI programs in Lazarus, but when I'm not using LCL, most often I don't bother and just use Geany or vim. Compiling always with FPC. In the very old days, I used Turbo Pascal, but I never touched Delphi. As for Smart Mobile Studio, it's a nice tool, but I found it more entertaining to actually try to learn some JavaScript (I made one game recently and I'm working on another one right now).

  2. #2
    I still keep Delphi compatibility on the game engine i do, but for any own project that's exclusively Lazarus. Simply more language features and stuff, PC is also the only platform i have interest to.

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  4. #4
    FPC. In the past, Think Pascal was the big one, then Metrowerks Pascal filled in on PowerPC (but even then, most development was in Think). Think Pascal was the environment that pushed Turbo Pascal out of the Mac market.

  5. #5
    I'm personally stil sticking to Delphi. The main reason for this is the fact that not so long ago I invested in buying Delphi XE2 proffesional. So if I switch my development tools not it would seem that all that money was just thrown away.
    Besides currently I'm only targeting Windows platforms since I know it prety well. But this doesn't mean that I'm not thinking about going to other platforms in the future. Thats why I'm already trying to use such components which already have support to other platforms (mostly being compatible with FPC) and I try avoiding ause of any Windows only specific code as much as I can.
    Right now I'm decing wheter I should or shouldn't use OmniThread library. While OmniThread library alos you to easily make Multithreaded applications it currently only works on Windows based systems. Also based on Primož Gabrielčič's words there is no plan of porting OmniThread library to other plaftorms for now as it would require compleete rewrite of the whole library as it heavily relies on Windows functionality.

  6. #6
    I am using FPC and Geany for developing my engine. Lazarus for the editor. For games I am using most often my own editor with my Lua based engine. At the moment I am learning HTML5/Javascript (since I can't afford SMS ).
    Last edited by Cybermonkey; 26-02-2013 at 01:06 PM. Reason: typo
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  7. #7
    Free Pascal + gVim. Doing it like "the good old days". For graphics I use The GIMP. I want to test Smart Studio because I want to do things on Android and such.
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