What software is PA implemented in?

[Ullapool]

I'm a bit surprised it is designed to work across Linux/Mac/windows and therefore am curious what software is used for this purpose. Anyone know? I don't think it is Unity.

[MAdMaN]

Custom engine programmed in C++.

All Introversion games are cross-platform.

[Ullapool]

Nice. I would imagine there'd be all sorts of trouble keeping the graphical bits working well cross platform without leveraging some existing infrastructure.

[Sildaekar]

No, the developers at introversion are very talented. If you buy the developer's package of Uplink you can see how they get everything working.

[MAdMaN]

Nice. I would imagine there'd be all sorts of trouble keeping the graphical bits working well cross platform without leveraging some existing infrastructure.

They use OpenGL, which is a cross-platform graphics API.

[thekillergreece]

They use C++ for coding,programming language such. Usual in Visual Studio.


For graphics, they use Flash

[MAdMaN]

For graphics, they use Flash

Wow, how wrong you are.

[xander]

For graphics, they use Flash

Um... okay then. I guess all of those OpenGL calls I'm seeing are for show?

xander

[Ullapool]

I didn't think people wrote their own OpenGL much anymore. Guess introversion has several games over a decade plus so guess they've developed their own kit. I was honestly hoping to learn more about tools available to download or purchase for development.

[Pogo]

Visual Studio is a pretty good environment for developing anything you're writing in C++, Visual Basic, C#, and a few others.

[Ullapool]

Guess I'm not being clear so let me be more verbose. I recognize there are many software development tools -VS, Xcode, vi, etc. that's not my question.

My question was about a standardized library for graphical displays across these three platforms. I recognize that OpenGL does that but I would have thought that the windowing mechanics would be sufficiently different between Mac, windows, and Linux that one would leverage an in-game graphical library higher level than OpenGL.

Just curious. . We don't see many developers offer binaries for all three systems and I was wondering what special sauce introversion had tapped into to allow them to do it.

A windows specific example would be directx. A Mac specific example would be cocoa. Cross platform is pretty unique (and complex as you can imagine).

[gloowa]

Your answere is here: (i think? i'm fairly certain i saw SDL binaries bundled with uplink source code?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer

[Ullapool]

Your answere is here: (i think? i'm fairly certain i saw SDL binaries bundled with uplink source code?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_DirectMedia_Layer

wonderful. Thank you. That is what I was looking for.

[xander]

Source code for Uplink, Darwinia, Defcon, and Multiwinia is available for purchase in the IV store. They aren't cheap (relatively speaking), but if you are interested in seeing their special sauce, purchase of the code gets you access to the repositories.

xander

[Delusional Logic]

It's quite obviously SDL, if you go to the games folder and "lib" you'll see "libSDL.dll/so.0/whatever OSX uses" If you then look at the full name you'll see that it's SDL 1.2. which is a shame since SDL 2 is right around the corner