[wplug] I want to develop a CLI RTS!

[Jonathan Billings]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 07:33:26PM -0700, John Lewis wrote:
> I tried an RTS that ran
> on the spring engine called kernel panic and I like the concept of
> it but it runs poorly on my laptop. 

The Spring engine appears to be a pretty powerful engine, and it might
be a good place to start if you want to develop your own RTS game.
(although it is most certainly not intended for a command-line
interface)

If it performs poorly on your laptop, there might be some things you
can do to improve that performance (like making sure you've got the
right drivers loaded for hardware-accellerated OpenGL).  

If you want to build your own text-only game, it's definitely worth
checking out the older games like moria, angband, nethack, etc.
They've been around for quite a while and have a lot of development
history.  There are probably hundreds, if not thousands of games based
on their model.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>