DelphiGamer Magazine Issue 1

**Eric** · 06-08-2007, 10:33 AM

Nice!

To further Jeremy's suggestions, it might be nice to have some kind of poll/demographics on the target public, to know if we're looking at mostly beginners, seasoned developers, etc. (this being the 1st issue, I don't expect you to have the statistics yet! so more about intended target)

For instance a fair share of the questions in GLScene newsgroup actually do not revolve around the library itself, but more about understanding of 3D maths (f.i. vectors, matrices, and their relation to "real world") or of simulation issues (time-dependency, integration, handling of collisions). If you don't understand what a cross-product does f.i., having "CrossProduct" in a function name or in a documentation will be of no help, same goes for affine vs homogeneous notions, vector vs point, etc.

These are deep subjects however, and food for series of articles, where if Delphi/Pascal can be the main support for sample implementation, it would be as much (if not more) about how/why it works, and showing it's not just mathemagics

Of course, beside finding volunteers, the issue will be to find a middle ground between theoretical lecture (boring) and cookbook recipe (fun, but ultimately misleading).

**Huehnerschaender** · 06-08-2007, 11:35 AM

How about a column about the frameworks that are available in Delphi?

Find a person who is fit in one framework each issue and he can write an article about the framework. How easy is it to use? What is it capable of? etc... each with a little sample program like a pong game.

We have many frameworks, but most people only know the ones they use.

Asphyre, DanJetX, GLScene, (Un)DelphiX, SDL etc etc...

**jdarling** · 06-08-2007, 12:55 PM

I'd be happy to work on an article about anything I can. Though I have to admit, that I'd more then likely focus on Lua, DAWG's, and/or searching algos. As those are the things I can speak intelligently about. As was said, I think that while these can be seen as generic topics, they are important in game development as well. My only problem is time and I don't see light at the end of the tunnel until late September.

Then again, between the articles I've started for here and the stuff I worked on for the Lua Gems book I'd have a pretty good start on the articles before then.

It would also be interesting to see Eric, Sascha, Dom, and others write about the libraries they have head up or developed and how to get started with them. Something I'm sure they already have done a few times in NG's and in private

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