Weaver
- Weaver
- is a framework designed to help the development of free graphical 2D games for GNU/Linux systems.
The Weaver Framework is formed by the Weaver API, that implements a lot of useful functions for game developers in C. It also countains the Weaver Script responsible for creating new game projects, generate basic code and Makefiles automaticly.
If you wish to talk with Weaver creator, you can send an e-mail to harry (AT) bitbitbit (DOT) com (DOT) br .
Download
Last release: 2013, first equinox (March 20).
Select your favorite format:
WEAVER 0.2 DOWNLOAD (.deb Package) WEAVER 0.2 DOWNLOAD (.tar.bz2 format)
You can also get the development version obtaining the git repository:
git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/weaver.git
You can also visit the Weaver's Savannah Page to report bugs, ask for new features or join the development team.
Getting Support
Are you having problems to use the framework? You don't understand how to use some feature? You can write a new support request HERE. You also can browse other support requests HERE to see if a request similar to yours was already answered.
Another place to talk about the framework, it's usage an techniques is the Weaver Mailing List.
Documentation
How To Install Weaver
Understanding Weaver Directories
Understanding Weaver Empty Game
How To Make a Bouncing Ball
How to Program a Pong Game for Linux using Weaver
Howto Make a Vector Game
How to Program a Spacewar! game for Linux using Weaver
Weaver Reference Guide
Some Weaver Games
Alien Pong
This is a Pong Clone with a spatial theme. The paddles
are controlled by the Shift and Ctrl buttons. You can exit
the game with the Esc button.
invasion
This program shows monsters trying to attack a
village. The player can build mazes trying to confuse
the monsters, but they always find the shortest path to
invade the village.
This is an educative
program showing the Breadth-first search algorithm. It
was used in a fair in Federal University of Paraná to
talk about Computer Science to High School
students.
This program is distributed with
Weaver in the "examples" directory.
spacewar
This is a clone of Spacewar!, the first computer game
made in 1961 for the DEC PDP-1. In this game, 2 spaceships
duels in the orbit of a star.
The Weaver Framework is copyrighted by Thiago "Harry" Leucz Astrizi and is licenced under GNU GPL Version 3 or later.
The logo used by the project is a derived work of a picture taken by "Fir0002/Flagstaffotos". It's licenced under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 only. A copy of this licence can be found here.
