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Freya Reaches 2.0 Beta Release

Posted by Zonk on from the you-think-you-can-do-better?-prove-it dept.

mandrake*rpgdx writes "Freya, a game programming environment for the Lua programming language, reaches 2.0 beta this week. Freya allows you to program cross platform games in the programming language Lua. It sports speeds 2x-10x faster than PyGame, and contains a built in map engine, pixel perfect collision detection, support for many graphics and sound formats including Ogg Vorbis and different MOD formats. Right now the beta release is looking for people to test the Linux version."

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  1. Games... where are the games... by advocate_one · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wanna see some games to play and hack with and see if it's even worth pulling down the stuff to write my own... the games page is empty... and the screenshots aren't exactly inspiring...

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  2. Re:Newbie Question... by ash*embers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you think that you'd like to hash out a quick and dirty game, you have 2 options:

    1) take some basic and intermediate classes at your local university or technical college. Then look at some game programming options then and only then, like Game Institute or something like that afterwards.

    2) Get comfortable with an advanced presentations program like Flash or Liquid Media which at present handle enough options to put some simple games together. It will have even more options to manipulate 3D environments in the near future, so I would say this is a real possibility for you, since it saves the programming pain. You sacrifice the flexibiltiy of a real game engine and have to work with the constraints of a presentation. Still very workable IMHO.