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Geek Culture / Looking for Beta Testers for my Game Development Engine (The Twilight Engine)

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 18th Dec 2007 04:15
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Hello.

I am wondering if anyone here (Who is familiar with C++) is interested in beta testing my game development engine. It's mainly geared towards development of games, but further features include a Windows based GUI, Console support (For debugging and such), multiple 3D windows, and various other functionality not generally specific to games.

Programs created with it do not require Direct3D 9.0c or 10. You can optionally use the 3D command set. Direct3D 9.0c is the default renderer, and the only one required to be considered "1.0". However, OpenGL and Direct3D 10 are planned (OpenGL will likely come first). Though, as a note it might only be Direct3D for a while.

The GUI portion is controlled by WinGui. In fact, the new version of WinGui is being worked on as part of the Twilight Engine, and will be ported from there. You'll even be able to use callbacks! An advanced function in GUIs which allows you to specify a function to be called upon a specific event happening in the GUI, such as the window moving or getting resized, or the window getting closed, etc.

Here's a thread explaining its progress.

Note: This is NOT spam (Though I may have overdone it a bit with explaining what it is). I am simply asking if someone would be interested in it. The full version will likely cost between $20 and $50 USD. Beta testers will of course get it for free.

Note: I believe I used to have beta testers for the project, but they've long gone away. Also, whenever I work on the Twilight Engine's Gui, I'm also working on WinGUI. How's that for killing two birds with one stone, eh?

If you're interested, post in this thread saying so, or in the thread shown above. I'll email you back.

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If you deem this useless, feel free to lock. If you deem this competition to the DarkGDK, then a) It's not, and b) This board is for that, from my understanding. Richard Davey said this board was for "crap talk."


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Keo C
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Posted: 18th Dec 2007 04:22
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Posted on your forums.


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Beast E Gargoyle
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Posted: 18th Dec 2007 04:23
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Sounds cool, but i have no clue what your talking about. laters

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 19th Dec 2007 03:10
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@Beat E Gargoyle
How can I help you understand better what I'm speaking of?


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n008
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Posted: 19th Dec 2007 03:15
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I know some Cpp. I need something to do anyhow....

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 19th Dec 2007 03:33
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Been made a beta tester. (The both of ya (Keo C and n008))


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Posted: 19th Dec 2007 03:37
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Cool, I'll check it out tomorrow, g2g to bed, school starts in a few hours! :o

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Beast E Gargoyle
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@Aaron i know what c++ is, my friend is fluent in it, but i think i know what the rest of the stuff is now lol. But i can't help i'm working on 3 separate game projects. Best of luck to ya though Beastegargoyle

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Posted: 19th Dec 2007 06:21
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If I knew C++, I would. But unfortunately I don't!


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@Beast E Gargoyle and Darth Vader
Okay, thanks.

@Beast E Gargoyle
It's a game development engine, but thanks anyhow.


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Just curious, what will your game engine be capable of? Like will it be centered for a fantasy, fps, racing, action/adventure or platformer game. Cause in 2008 i'll be looking for a good free game engine for my upcoming Fantasy game. All the best, Beastegargoyle

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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 03:57 Edited at: 20th Dec 2007 03:58
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Quote: "Like will it be centered for a fantasy, fps, racing, action/adventure or platformer game"

I believe it's not geared to any one.
Quote: "Cause in 2008 i'll be looking for a good free game engine for my upcoming Fantasy game."

This is going for 20-50 USD, unless you do some testing.


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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 04:02 Edited at: 20th Dec 2007 04:02
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Quote: " This board is for that, from my understanding. Richard Davey said this board was for "crap talk."
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Already calling your engine crap.... not a good start.

Just kidding
looks cool though, nice job

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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 04:17
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Yeah I will help aaron if this engine support's a fantasy/action game.

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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 04:45
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Quote: "Yeah I will help aaron if this engine support's a fantasy/action game."

It's not drag and drop, you can code any game.


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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 06:56
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@Corky
lol, thanks.

@Beast E Gargoyle
I myself am planning to make my game, The Twilight, with this (Hence the name "Twilight Engine"). Though it isn't intended for any particular game genre, I will be keeping as many code snippets as I can in the final release. All the beta testers (which agree to this of course) will have all the beta testing code they created in the final release as well. In addition, I'd like to code some small games. Examples of small games I'd like to create (by genre, 1 per genre): FPS, Adventure, RPG, and Racing. Though that may not be the case in the final event.

This is a C++ SDK (Software Development Kit), and would require the end-user to have knowledge of C++ to be able to use it.

@Keo C
Thanks for helping me out there.


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O.o i read your tread! I know some C++ and did a little DarkGDK! Maybe i can sign as a beta tester.. but there is something id like to tell you on yahoo first

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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 07:14
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We've spoken. You're a beta tester now.

I'm not gonna give away many more positions, anyone else wanna be a beta tester?


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Posted: 20th Dec 2007 16:18
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Well good luck with the engine, yeah i don't know c++. I only know html, vbscript, and dbp coding.

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How much c++ do we have to know because I can do some basic stuff in c++ but I have never gone into the 3D aspect of c++. Also, how much time do you think you would want us to put in as I don't have much free time but I do have some.

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2007 06:00
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Enough to be able to find bugs and pin point them to a specific command or commands.

I don't expect anything until after January 8th, which is when the beta should be out.

There's no linked lists, OOP, or other forms of advanced C++ in use to the end-user, so you needn't know or understand that.


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