gfm 1.1.5

What's this?

GFM is a feature-rich library to ease the creation of video games / multimedia applications with the D programming language. Pick what you need.

Documentation and overview can be found here: http://d-gamedev-team.github.io/gfm/

License

Public Domain (Unlicense).

How to use GFM?

See the examples/ directory, or https://github.com/p0nce/aliasthis as an example of a game.

Design goals

• Give more power to the library user providing code that will probably need to be written anyway.
• Each module / sub-package is maximally decoupled (the major pain point right now is the lack of a standard logging facility).
• Logging interface for everything which need to output messages.
• Correctness and functionality are favoured over speed.
• Wrappers are lightweight layers that expose the C libraries objects, turn every error code into an D exception and makes it easier to use the library correctly.
• As much as possible, GFM emit warnings when something goes wrong, try to recover when it makes sense and log every problem.

Why use GFM?

In the D1 days, I created several multimedia applications:

• Vibrant: http://www.gamesfrommars.fr/vibrant/
• Wormhol: http://www.gamesfrommars.fr/wormhol/
• Extatique: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53942
• The Orange Guy: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52780
• SeamzGood: http://www.dsource.org/projects/seamzgood

This all came with some insight with how to do OpenGL applications in D. During this time I became acutely aware that my quick & dirty coding style wouldn't cut it in the long run. GFM is the clean successor library to the unfortunate code I was using at this time.