netcapsule
Member
Hi to everybody!
I would like to ask if someone can give an advice or direction which tools to use in development for psp minis platform. If there exist ready made engines, libraries or tools for 2d / 3d? Is it necessary to start from scratch and make your own engines or Sony provides libraries for 2d/3d with dev-kit? Or if experienced developers can give quick overview of thier solutions?
Thanks for help and for this streight psp minis site!
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Booger
Member
Well I'm not an established developer (I'm just a garage hobbyist), but I think Sony is as strict as Nintendo in only allowing incorporated entities with offices to develop for them. I hear the Sony devkits are easy to use, but mighty expensive until recently.
For an unknown to get on board, you need to have a moderately successful game already or otherwise show some potential, such as in a university or independent games festival project.
My plan is to use the now-free Unity3D or UDK to prototype a game to be entered into next year's IGF and go from there. The point is to make Sony come to you, instead of wasting time and money begging for devkits from the get-go.
Speaking of Unity. Unity are trying to or have hired an experienced PSP developer in the hope (I would expect) of getting unity running on the PSP. Whether this will ever happen is still up for debate, but I have my fingers crossed.
Unity is such a great engine and a lot of success has been had by developers using it to develop for iphone. If it was made to work on the PSP all those Unity iphone games could probably come to PSP with very little effort.
Hellcat
Member
There's not much about pre-made engines that get licensed on the PSP at all, even less for minis as far as I can see it at the moment.
But who knows, minis are still kind of new on the PSP, everything has still to establish itself and to get going.
I know of one title being in development that will use a kind of a "game engine" that's supposed to be aimed at small-size arcade-style games (i.e. perfect for easy minis development).
The engine is developed alongside the game itself and if it works out to be nice and usefull there's chances it might be made available to other developers.... we'll see.
Aside that, the PSP already has a nice set of API (and libraries) one can use to do stuff, making most things quiet easy to achieve.
There's not much about pre-made engines that get licensed on the PSP at all, even less for minis as far as I can see it at the moment.But who knows, minis are still kind of new on the PSP, everything has still to establish itself and to get going.
I know of one title being in development that will use a kind of a "game engine" that's supposed to be aimed at small-size arcade-style games (i.e. perfect for easy minis development).
The engine is developed alongside the game itself and if it works out to be nice and usefull there's chances it might be made available to other developers.... we'll see.Aside that, the PSP already has a nice set of API (and libraries) one can use to do stuff, making most things quiet easy to achieve.
I have heard rumor of this engine. Do you know more about it? And what might be required to use it in a Mini? I assume this would allow someone to jump forward fairly far in development rather than without, yes?
npt
Hellcat
Member
I can try to get some more details about it, yeah.
AFAIK it's supposed to make things even more easy by taking care of most of the usual stuff like getting things on the screen and handling them.
Not sure what would be req'ed to use it in a minis.... some version of the engine I suppose *lol*
I assume this would allow someone to jump forward fairly far in development rather than without, yes?
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