Today I am talking with Gad D Lord, creator of MTG Studio, a program for building and managing decks for Magic the Gather (a collectible card game). Gad is both a MicroISV with MTG Studio at PalmROOT, and a team leader for a software development team at a 400M company. He shares his thoughts on the popularity and suitability for Delphi in both settings. He also compares Delphi to many other development tools and languages. Talks about what sets Delphi apart and helps it to stand out. Finally he shares his thoughts on what Delphi needs in the future.
Author Archives: Jim McKeeth
48 – Pascal Game Development with Jason McMillen
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 28-Oct-2011 5 comments
In this much belated episode I talk with Jason McMillen of Pascal Game Development. We discuss the surprisingly vast world of Pascal Game Development with Delphi, Free Pascal, Oxygene and other Pascal and Object Pascal derivatives. You can find Jason “WILL” McMillen in the following places:
Jason has also provided us a list of Delphi / Pascal game engines and games developed with them. Some of these were mentioned in this episode.
Game libraries & engines
- DelphiX / UnDelphiX
- Asphyre Sphinx
- GLScene
- Allegro.pas
- ZenGL
- Phoenix Game Library
- Andorra 2D
- Jarrod Davis’ libraries (Big Daddy Games, Pyrogine, Hadron, Simvector)
- Cast II
- Dage Adventure Game Engine
- Kambi VRML Game Engine
- Thundax Physics Engine
- Genesis Engine
- Quake2Delphi engine translation
- Game Maker
API Headers
- Clootie’s DirectX Headers
- DelphiGL’s 4.2 Headers
- Noeska’s OpenAL & OpenGL headers
- Sascha Willem’s Newton Game Dynamics Headers
- JEDI-SDL
Games
Commercial
- Hedgewars for iOS
- Dachinko & Knight of Dulcinea by Gamecask
- Sushi Quest (franchise)
- Druids: Battle of Magic
- Mars Miner
- A Magnetic Adventure
- Spectromancer: League of Heroes
- Age of Wonders (series) by Triumph
- Drawn 1 & 2 (Big Fish Games)
- Drawn 1 on iOS
- Dreams of a Geisha
- Siege of Avalon
- Tomb Climber & others
Non-commercial / in development
Notable sites
- Free Pascal meets SDL
- Pascal Programming for Schools
- DelphiGL.com German community
- Pascal Gamer Magazine
- PGD Annual Game Developer’s Competition
- PGD Annual Showcase Site
Again only a fraction much of the libraries and games have come and gone and there isn’t much of a reference to them on the Internet anymore.
Conference Time
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 22-Aug-2011 2 comments
Delphi Live! for 2011 is September 12 – 14th down in San Jose again. Sure to be a great live conference with the upcoming release of Delphi XE2. Unfortunately I won’t be there (scheduling conflict), but a lot of other great speakers will be presenting.
Also coming soon is Code Rage 6. This is Embarcadero’s own virtual conference. The call for papers is currently open with the conference taking place October 17-21, 2011. I am planning on presenting at Code Rage again this time around. Again I am sure there will be a lot of great sessions there.
Links are back
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 28-Apr-2011 No comments
47 – Marco & Cary – Delphi Developer Days 2011
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 10-Apr-2011 2 comments
Talking with Marco & Cary about Delphi, it’s future and Delphi Developer Days 2011. I will be joining Marco and Cary in Huston for Delphi Developer Days. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
46 – “Cooper” – Pascal for Java
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 22-Mar-2011 6 comments
A special interview with Carlo Kok about the new project “Cooper” – an Object Pascal compiler for Java and Android. “Cooper” is a new and exciting research project going on in the RemObjects Software Labs, to bring the Oxygene language from Delphi Prism to the Java and Android platforms. The original Oxygene for .NET set out to bring a modern and “next generation” Object Pascal to the .NET world, Project “Cooper” is taking this endeavor to the next level, expanding the reach of Oxygene to the second big managed platform.
45 – Allen Bauer – Part 2 of 2
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 1-Feb-2011 4 comments
Talking with Allen Bauer, Chief Scientist with Embarcadero, working on Delphi and other RAD tools.
We discussed:
- Delphi on the Mac
- New platforms for Delphi
- Investments in Delphi Team
- New Cross Platform graphical widget library
- Escaping the beige world
- Decoupling UI from application logic
- Good user interface design
This is the second part of episode 44 with Allen Bauer where we mostly discussed Delphi for 64-bit.
44 – Allen Bauer – Part 1 of 2
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 26-Jan-2011 29 comments
Developer Solutions Conference – Las Vegas 2011
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 23-Dec-2010 No comments
Another combined episode with RemObjects Radio (we will have our own episodes again soon). In this episode I talk with marc hoffman, Olaf Monien and Daniel Magin about the upcoming Developer Solutions Conference in Las Vegas for this February 2011. There is a discount code good through Christmas on the site. This is a really exciting conference. It is the first joint conference with RemObjects and Developer Experts. We are re-inventing the conference to degree. The idea with the Developer Solutions Conference is to have all the sessions tightly coupled for a specific objective. The objective this time around is introducing developers to cross platform and mobile application development, specifically with multi-tier database applications. It will be a great conference and I look forward to seeing you all there.
Delphi Tage 2010
Posted by Jim McKeeth on 19-Sep-2010 2 comments
Recorded live and in person at Delphi Tage in Berlin (I’m still here for 2 more weeks for EKON too). The Delphi Tage (“Delphi Days”) was a short (3-day) conference organized by the German Delphi PRAXiS community forums, alongside Embacrdero and Developer Experts. It provided two days of preconference workshops, and a day with 3 tracks of conference-style talks on various topics surrounding Delphi and Delphi Prism . Our podcast is basically a roundtable discussion with a bunch of people involved in the conference, including the organizers (Daniel Wolf and Daniel Magin), some RemObjects folks, David I from Embarcadero and Uwe Schuster (the guy behind the SVN integration in Delphi/Win32 XE) and Arvid Winkelsdorf of Indy fame.
Since this was so much fun, we decided to share this episode between here and RemObjects Radio.
Update: The organizers of the Delphi-Tage is the German Delphi community represented through Delphi-Praxis, Delphi-Treff and Entwickler-Ecke supported by Embarcadero Germany and Developer Experts. – Thanks to Martin for clarifying that for me.
