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[FlamingHawk]

Could someone possibly give me a list of many programming APIs for the following:

-Music/Sound
-Graphics 3D
-Graphics 2D
-Artificial Intelligence
-And any other ones that are out there....

[awood]

Just to get you started:

Music/Sound:
Fmod, OpenAL

Graphics (2D and 3D)
OpenGL, DirectX

Artificial Intelligence
Soar (rulebased ai) -- If you really want to use this, wait for Soar 6.2 to come out.
Jack (for Belief Desire Intention agents)
Generally you build your own AI framework specific to your needs -- check out www.generation5.org, http://www.gamedev.n...p?categoryid=18
This may also be of use: http://www.devmaster...read.php?t=4294

[bladder]

For music you also have DirectMusic

There're physics APIs as well
- Havok
- Newton
- ODE
- Novodex
- Tokamak

Then networking APIs
- Winsock is the base
- Raknet

And for Graphics, Input, Networking, Music, Sound you have SDL.

[geon]

* Cross-platform window handling:
wxWidgets (The best imho. Gives sockets, filesystem, and lots more.)
qt

* Graphics:
OpenGL
SDL (Cross platform. Supports opengl.)
DirectX
Allegro
TinyPTC
PixelToaster (Floating-point framebuffer)

[SnprBoB86]

This would make a good wiki page

[zavie]

I second that. Or maybe an entry in some kind of programming FAQ. :-)

[Vexorian]

hge Really easy to do good documentation, uses directx, but it is not free for commercial games

[FlamingHawk]

I'm not lookin for a game engine, but actually just a list and links for APIs

[darqSHADOW]

Sure would help people out if ya'll would just submit these links to GDRL (www.game-development.net). Especially since we're getting a lot more hits on the site now that Google has given us a PR5 finally... ;)

DS