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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. Ummm why did this make slashdot? by pyman · · Score: 1, Troll
    It's kind of surreal seeing this article make slashdot...

    The library is limited to 320x240 resolution, and simulates a joystick using keypress events! This is obviously a toy project of the article submitter. Do the editors bother checking the background of articles anymore?

    The poster then has the audacity to compare the library favorably to pygame, (and poke fun at it) which supports anything SDL can do. That means any resolution your video card can do, not just 320x240.

    The speed comparison is also irrelevant. It is simply a comparison of Allegro and SDL, not Freya and pygame. Anyone serious about speed avoids SDL and opts for an OpenGL accelerated backend anyway...

    Sw.

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