Oxygen Basic

Information => Open Forum => Topic started by: kryton9 on June 25, 2011, 11:35:14 PM

Title: game engine name
Post by: kryton9 on June 25, 2011, 11:35:14 PM

As some of you know I was thinking of naming my game engine zx- this is when I was going to do it in c++, mainly because zx is easy to type... but it is not much of a name.
In most c++ libraries you use namespaces and so mine would have been zx, it would mean typing things like this to make the code clear:  zx::Image myImage
But in Oxygen we don't need namespaces, Oxygen is very smart in handling scoping for us automatically ;)

So I thought about Oxygen, and of course Water came to mind as a name and then it hit me....

glisten it starts with gl for opengl and here is the definition for those whom English is not their first language.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glisten

Since a lot of the cool opengl stuff is effects and nice shiny stuff, I thought it was a good name for an opengl based game engine for oxygen.

Any opinions?

Title: Re: game engine name
Post by: JRS on June 26, 2011, 02:01:57 PM

+1

Title: Re: game engine name
Post by: kryton9 on June 26, 2011, 03:19:58 PM

Thanks John.

Title: Re: game engine name
Post by: Charles Pegge on June 26, 2011, 09:02:59 PM

I'm using GLO2 for the OpenGL components of Oxygen. I have not settled on a term for sound yet. It could be SO2 :). Then there's SCIO2 for science, AIO2 for artificial intelligence, DO2 for database.

How about GO2 for Games components?

Charles

Title: Re: game engine name
Post by: kryton9 on June 26, 2011, 09:26:27 PM

Since you have a nice idea for a themed naming scheme for all the modules then GO2 sounds good.

Title: Re: game engine name
Post by: Charles Pegge on June 26, 2011, 10:00:19 PM

We can also use names for specific projects Of course!

Can you think of a game to with Oxymoron  :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron

Quote

Plastic lemons
Electric candles
Rubber bones for dogs
Floating soap
China eggs to persuade hens to lay
Solid water (ice)
Bricked-up windows
Artificial grass
Wax fruit
Invisible ink
Joke rubber coat hooks
Solid wooden bottle moulds

Charles

Title: Re: game engine name
Post by: kryton9 on June 26, 2011, 10:08:10 PM

funny :)

I heard this on the radio today and it gave me a laugh...

Why do these mean the opposite: A wise man, a wise guy?