Game programming - How to avoid reinventing the wheel

Question

Summary:

Can I program a \"thick client\" game in C without reinventing wheels, or should I just bite the bullet and use some libr

Answer 1

I would recomend you try pyglet.

• It has good performance, as it utilizes opengl
• Its a compact all-in-one library
• It has no extra dependencies besides python

Do some tests, see if you can make it fast enough for you. Only if you prove to yourself that it's not move to a lower level. Although, I'm fairly confident that python + pyglet can handle it... at worst you'll have to write a few C extensions.