FreePascal + Lazarus for Game Development

[WILL]

Hi. This is my first post here in the Lazarus forums.

I was wondering what everyones opinions are on using Free Pascal with and without Lazarus using many of the available components and libraries available for game development are.

And if anyone is currently using Free Pascal to make games yet?

[Giuseppe Ridinò]

Well,... If you consider Mine Sweeper like a game, then the answer is yes.  :lol:

[-=Fox=-]

maybe using SDL i think it is possible
Project Jedi

[Giuseppe Ridinò]

This sound interesting...
about Jedi-SDL I have found these two links:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedi-sdl
http://www.delphi-jedi.org/Jedi:TEAM_SDL_HOME

[Lightning]

You can compile for the OpenGL libraries with FPC so the answer is yes.
You can make OpenGL based games with FPC directly or in the Lazarus environment.
I don't know if it supports DirectX but i don't care, i don't need Direct3D because it's not crossplatform and Micro$oft is going to make it a commercial product you have to pay for.
There are a few examples in the FPC directory that use OpenGL.

[WILL]

You'll also be glad to know that OpenAL headers have been translated to Pascal aswell. However it has been translated for Delphi it should be able to be made Free Pascal compatable with a wee bit of work. Have a look

[Lightning]

Free Pascal + Lazarus games possible.
Have a look at http://www.delphigamer.com soon will become PGD
(Pascal Game Developement) and it covers many Pascal compilers including Free Pascal

[Bendito]

Generally, you use FPC together with SDL. There's no point to using Lazarus. Until Lazarus comes with a multiplatform, OpenGL component, or some reasonably easy method to use OpenGL on Lazarus forms (or panels) regardless of platform, then you should stick with FPC + SDL. It's a shame, because Lazarus has some nice GUI elements that would be useful for a game.

[Lightning]

I think it's easier to write code in a GUI environment with decent scrolling even if you don't render in a Widget(Window) Control.
I use Lazarus to write the code without using forms, i don't render in forms.
Using controls and rendering is useful for Terrain Editing, etc. (I did this only in Delphi), but games usually go FullScreen

[Juan Pablo]

I use OpenGL plus GLFW. GLFW is a free (as in beer and as in speech) glut-like library that work for Windows, Linux, Mac, etc, etc (just like FreePascal! so is the perfecty match ).
It allows you to write OpenGL games without the hassle of dealing with window creation, keyboard and mouse input (Yes, it also work like DirectInput) and other annoying things.
(glfw.sourceforge.net)

[Lightning]

Last time i checked i couldn't use glfw on Linux but on windows no problem.
I can only use glut on Linux.
Some people suggest JEDI SDL, maybe i'll try SDL too.

[WILL]

There are a ton of options. If you go to the Free Pascal section on DGDe you'll notice that it's picking up and game projects are being started and discussed on the board.

[smace]

I've already created one game using FPC + Lazarus + JEDI-SDL. And it works very nice. I dont see any problem in using Lazarus for Game Development. It is open source
If you want the game, ,mailme.

[smace]

SMACE'S GAME using FPC + JEDI SDL + LAZ > WINDOWS ONLY (for now)
http://www.smace.com.br/downloads/swar_laz.rar

[Lightning]

Almindor has a nice game that uses SDL.