Fwd: GSoC Perl Games Physics Engine

Hello fellow devs,

We are getting a lot of response to work on the game engine. It might  
be good to collaborate our thoughts and code.

Kartik Thakore

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Kartik Thakore <[email protected]>
> Date: April 5, 2010 8:52:54 AM EDT
> To: Nakamura <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Dannenberg! <[email protected] 
> >
> Subject: Re: GSoC Perl Games Physics Engine
>

> Good Morning,
>
> There are many areas that need work in the game engine as we have  
> barely anything like this for Perl. We do have some ideas on our  
> development wiki.
>
> http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/gsoc2010
>
> See the cogent link there.
>
> Currently there is work being done/planned in:
>
> -Cogent: The glue framework for seperate modules in C/Perl
>
> -SDLx:: The extensions for basic objects in SDL perl
>
> -SDLx::Widgets Simple widgets that are common accross games
> pi
> - We also need to bind better physics and sound libraries to Perl  
> (similar to SDL_perl)
>
> If you are interested in bindings I  am your guy.
>
> As for you guys both working on the game engine I don't think it  
> will be a problem if your projects are seperate components. But be  
> vary that you guys dont depend on each others work until after  
> gsoc2010. Your deliverables must be seperate and distinct.
>
> Finally meet us on #sdl irc.perl.org to discuss more.
>
> Kartik Thakore
>
> On 2010-04-05, at 1:30 AM, Nakamura <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello zpmorgan, kthakore,
>>
>> We are both interested in working on the perl games physics engine  
>> for Google Summer of Code (GSOC), but per the GSoC guidelines, we  
>> are not able to apply as a group.  Following those guidelines, we  
>> would each like to work with one of you on one of perl games  
>> engine's projects.  Matt is a Computer Science and Physics major at  
>> McGill University, and Moses is a Computer Science and Mathematics  
>> major at Columbia University, so we are both interested in physics  
>> and computer science.  We both grasp introductory physics, and like  
>> working with perl.  We also really like games, and hacked a short  
>> one together in fall of senior year.  Because of those interests,  
>> this project seemed like the best choice.
>>
>> Do you have any specific ideas for projects that we can work on?   
>> We would really like to be involved in any way possible.  GSoC  
>> technically allows us to submit up to twenty project proposals  
>> each, so even if there is more than one idea that each of us is  
>> interested in, we can submit applications for all of them.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Moses Nakamura
>> Matt Dannenberg
>