Castle Game Engine Roadmap

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Castle Game Engine: Cross-platform (desktop, mobile, console) 3D and 2D game engine supporting many asset formats (glTF, X3D, Spine...) and using modern Object Pascal

Pascal? That's a very odd choice

Why is Pascal an odd choice considering this is not a relatively new game engine?

It goes back to 2007. Pascal was taught in schools as the main programming language in the 80s like python and java are today.

I was digging in and found the source for a real-time UDP networking library in pascal. Its about a megabyte:

https://github.com/BeRo1985/rnl/blob/master/src/RNL.pas

We consider it a modern, OOP, native (fast), type-safe, cross-platform programming language :) You're welcome to learn more about Pascal on https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal .

It used to be quite common on MS-DOS, demoscene and early Windows games, specially in Europe.

Nakama does not have shared parallelism, look at http://fuse.rupy.se for better scalability.

Thank you, I'm reading http://fuse.rupy.se/about.html now. It seems an interesting alternative.

My quick observation is that Nakama does seem to have more complete docs and wider support ( https://heroiclabs.com/docs/index.html , https://heroiclabs.com/customers/ ) -- which is super-important for us (Castle Game Engine authors). Anyhow, I'll learn more before making the decision with which to integrate :)

I would recommend using wireshark and reading what is being sent on the network to learn.

Otherwise you are completely blind as to how the systems really work.

Oh man i remember Castle beginnings back when i was an article writer for pascalgamedevelopment.com. Glad to see it still pushing a long, go pascal, you good thing!

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