http://frontend.outracks.net High Level Game Development API for C++ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:07:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have now opened the subversion repository for Frontend, so you can update to the latest bleeding-edge version at any time without registering. http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/fwgUse of Frontend from the repository is allowed under the same license as the packed release (Creative Commons by-nc-sa license). http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/subversion-repository-opened/ A demo by bitFlavour was released at Solskogen 2009 using Frontend 2. Have a look at it here. http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/new-demo-based-on-frontend-2/ We have now released the first publicly available version of Frontend 2.0 under the under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License! You can also download the source for the demo Quantum which compiles with this release of Frontend. Have fun :) http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/frontend-20-for-the-masses/ After two long years in the making, we are now proud to announce that Frontend 2.0 is done! We are feature complete - further development on Frontend 2.0 will only be minor bugfixing. In a short while, we will release a source package for non-registered users to download. Those of you ... http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/20-is-finally-reached/ fScript is a runtime environment which enables you to develop portable 3D graphics applications such as games and demos from JavaScript. fScript is implemented on top of Frontend, and gives you high performance rendering of 2D and 3D graphics, in addition to simple-to-use sound, network and input functionality. fScript is ideal ... http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/introducing-fscript/ Frontend 2.0 is being used in a brand new game called Evil Junior. This is a classical humorous adventure game in a mixture of 2D and 3D graphics developed by Illuminatics. A demo version is hopefully ready for display in the Norwegain Game Awards 2009 competition in May. http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/showcase-evil-junior/ We have converted the newbie-tutorials used in the NGA workshop into web-based tutorials. This means that we finally have something up-to-date to help you get started using Frontend, and more is on the way! Remember to visit the IRC-channel #frontend on EFnet if you want additional support. http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/new-tutorials/ On Thursday January 15th, the Frontend team will hold a workshop in Trondheim, Norway where we will run a live tutorial on how to get started making games with Frontend 2.0. The workshop is hosted by Norwegian Game Awards and its goal is to help more student groups to start ... http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/learn-frontend-from-the-makers/ The invitation demo for The Gathering 2009 has now been released. The demo is called "Radiers of the Lost Art" and is basically a Frontend Working Group combined effort on the code side. To no surprise, the demo is therefore written entirely against Frontend 2.0 Beta 3 :) Download it from ... http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/more-hot-frontend-20-action/ The Online Reference is now updated with the changes in Beta 3. Have a look at it here. http://frontend.outracks.net/dev-blog/online-reference-updated/