Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The GAMES Project

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
I haven't been able to find your project or your name in the list of GNU
projects and maintainers. Did you already receive a message from Richard
Stallman saying your project had been accepted to the GNU project?

Cheers,
Jaime

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:17:33PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Jeffrey T. Read <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: The GAMES Project
> System name: gamesproject
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> My project is the GNU GAMES project, a series of libraries and tools for game 
> and multimedia developers. The project\'s flagship is the sprite32 library, a 
> simple, compact (binary is under 20k stripped!), and efficient 2D animation 
> library written in C and C++. The library can do sprite-based 2D animation 
> for games, or simply act as a \"framebuffer on steroids\" for intensely 
> graphical applications. With its \"SpriteImage\" display method and 
> \"SpriteEvent\" event model, sprite32 will be able to target a variety of 
> display and windowing systems. Special emphasis is being put on X11, OpenGL, 
> and SDL, with Linux fbdev and Win32 DirectX support planned. In spite of 
> this, simplicity and small size remain supreme goals of the project, as there 
> are application niches (e.g., PDA games) which demand the development of such 
> a compact library. Other libraries include osound, an object-oriented 
> framework for music and sound effects playback.
> 
> The web space will be home not only to the libraries but small demos and 
> simple games to help programmers to get started.
> 
> It already exists and you can see it at http://gnugames.sourceforge.net/. 
> Since this is a GNU project my intention is to move its public presence from 
> Sourceforge to savannah and resume development there.