IKA DEVELOPMENTS

There are just my thoughts on ika and my ideas behind it.



Guidelines
ika games should never require Python to be installed on the system.

You do not have to install ika to play ika games; only develop them.



ika Installation
ika will come with the "ika game library" (IGL), a package of scripts to fulfill most generic aspects of game engines.

ika will come with iked, the ika editor, which includes specific tools to develop your ika game.



ika Game Library
Written entirely in Python.

IGL can be updated and will be maintained with ika itself.

IGL will contain multiple subpackages dealing with certain genres of games, such as:
RPGs
Platformers
Shooters

The different genre engines inside IGL will come with premade ikaDB models.

I imagine the directory structure of IGL will be something similar to this:
igl/
db/
formats/
genres/
rpg/
platform/
shooter/
utils/

ika will continue to provide heavy lifting for audio and video.



ika Game Distribution
iked will contain a specific "Distribute" tool that will deal with the task of packaging your game to be distributed.

ika is a cross-platform engine. iked packaged games will contain all the game files, a Windows binary and a copy of the developer's current IGL package. Due to the nature of linux libraries, I don't know an easy method for Linux distribution.

The purpose behind IGL is basically to have a library that is always distributed with ika and is always available to use. You won't be able to make your own IGL, but you will be able to contribute to it.

As I have said before, that's been fixed, Max. :)

Yeah, ika will still handle all the input stuff. I am thinking that I might extend it some for IGL but I am not sure about it.