Difference between revisions of "Developing a Sphere-compatible engine"

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This tutorial article is incomplete, but it is also important. Do not edit it unless you've been given permission, thanks.

This article aims to provide a checklist and resources for developing a JavaScript-powered game engine that is compatible with Sphere's JavaScript API.

Introduction

Throughout this article, the original Sphere implementation shall be referred to as "vanilla" Sphere.

(TODO: list possible media frameworks?) (TODO: more)

Input

(keyboard, mouse, joystick, touch-screen?)

Output

Video

(TODO: more) (TODO: multi-monitor?) (TODO: touch-screen?)

Audio

List of Sphere-compatible engine implementations

Complete or in-progress

• vanilla Sphere
• TurboSphere
• unnamed Sphere clone in SDL
• sphere-sfml

Discontinued or abandoned

(TODO)

See also

(TODO)