KAGE: Alternative Game Engine

Idea List page for Google Summer of Code 2010

KAGE is a free, cross-platform, 2D game development kit, designed to be relatively easy for aspiring game developers to use.

KAGE is composed of:

• Quixie as the game engine
  
• KonsolScript as the game programming language
  
• KonsolScript Editor as source code editor
  
• MapBuilder and EntityBuilder as tools
  

Idea List

• Game Engine – written in FreeBASIC which could easily use C-written libraries.
  
  
  
  • Add Animation class
    • Mentor: Mj Mendoza IV
    • Required skill/s:
      • Animation Programming
      • FreeBASIC Programming (experience in other BASIC will do)
    • Description:
      • Quixie already have an animation engine; use the same functionality and expose it for KonsolScript to use.

  • Continue MySQL connectivity
    • Mentor: Mj Mendoza IV
    • Required skill/s:
      • MySQL
      • PHP
      • Basic knowledge in C
      • FreeBASIC Programming (experience in other BASIC will do)
    • Description:
      • Quixie already have initial support for MySQL[1] [2]; needs more work.

  • Implement Cairo as rendering engine — Already implemented in v100601
    • Mentor: —
    • Required skill/s:
      • Cairo
      • Basic knowledge in C
      • FreeBASIC Programming (experience in other BASIC will do)
    • Description:
      • Quixie uses FBGFX as rendering engine, which lacks support for vector rendering.

    
    

  • Implement Net class — already implemented in v0.3.101130 on SVN
    • Mentor: —
    • Required skill/s:
      • ChiSock
      • Network Programming
      • FreeBASIC Programming (experience in other BASIC will do)
    • Description:
      • FreeKE have basic support for Network programming, Quixie doesn’t support it yet; Use ChiSock library.

    
    

  • Implement Sound class — Already implemented in v100402
    • Mentor: Vincent DeCampo
    • Required skill/s:
      • FBSound
      • Audio Programming
      • FreeBASIC Programming (experience in other BASIC will do)
    • Description:
      • Quixie lacks the the functionality to play sound/music; the old game engine, FreeKE does.

    
    

  • Implement Game class — Implemented the game engine from FreeKE‘s code base; available on build v0.3.101010
    • Mentor: Vincent DeCampo
    • Required skill/s:
      • Game Programming
      • FreeBASIC Programming (experience in other BASIC will do)
    • Description:
      • Quixie’s development focus moved away from game engine to process optimization; it’s time to get back to track.

    
    

  
  
• KonsolScript – we wanted this done in C, and now we will.
  
  
  
  • Prototype libQuixie
    • Mentor: Robert Smith
    • Required skill/s:
      • Language Design and Implementation
      • DLL/Library Programming
      • C Programming
    • Description:
      • Quixie is currently a monolithic engine for gaming and scripting; libQuixie will seperate the gaming engine from the scripting engine.

  • Object Oriented KonsolScript
    • Mentor: Robert Smith
    • Required skill/s:
      • Language Design and Implementation
      • Object Oriented Programming
      • C Programming
    • Description:
      • Develop a prototype for an OOP-supported KonsolScript engine.

  
  
• Editor
  
  
  
  • Implement Project management
    • Mentor: Brian Matheson
    • Required skill/s:
      • Visual Basic 6 Programming
    • Description:
      • KonsolScript Editor only edits and executes the active source file being edited.

  • Prototype a new cross-platform editor
    • Mentor: —
    • Required skill/s:
      • GTK+ or Qt Toolkit
      • C Programming or C++ Programming
    • Description:
      • KonsolScript Editor works on GNU/Linux platform but needs WINE to run.

  
  

UPDATE: KonsolScript, along with 245 other organizations, was not accepted as a project in the Google Summer of Code 2010. This post serves as KonsolScript’s 2010 project road map.