Game Development In D

Original Post

Aug 16, 2012 at 4:10 AM

Hey guys!

I recently stumbled upon the D language, and I really liked what I saw. I plan on learning the language for fun, but I was curious to see if there are any people out there making games with this spiffy language! Or perhaps just using it in general? I feel like the D language really has a lot of potential and wanted to know what others thought.

Aldacron

Aug 16, 2012 at 8:29 AM

Yes, there are plenty of people using it for games (such as the Minecraft clients Charged Miners and BraLa) and other types of software. There are bindings to a number of C libraries, like Derelict 3 (my own collection of bindings to game-oriented libs like OpenGL, SDL2, and more) and the Deimos project (several bindings that aren't game-specific).You can find several D developers, game and otherwise, in the newsgroups (for which there is a web interface that's actually written in D) and in IRC at #d on freenode.

There are also a few professional game developers hanging out on the newsgroups. One of them has been very active in getting D in a state that will make the game industry take notice. For example, DMD now has SIMD intrinsics, while compatibility with the Microsoft linker (and hence the Visual Studio toolchain, a big one for pro game devs) is under development. There's also work in getting D onto mobile platforms via GDC (the GCC D compiler).

kidman171

Aug 20, 2012 at 7:40 PM

I am currently using D for game programming and so far I have been enjoying it quite a bit!
For a window, I am using Aldacron's Derelict2 bindings for SDL.
For graphics, I updated some old Horde3D bindings to work with Horde3d Beta 5 and I currently use those.

D is a great language and is enjoyable to write, I highly recommend it.

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