Meeting:2010/01/24

This article documents the topics and discussions of the January 24th, 2010 FIFE developer meeting

Date

January 24th, 2010 at 4:30 GMT

This is a private fife developers only meeting.

License / Agreement paper
- We should create an agreement paper to make it transparent for new programmers that all code in FIFE svn is licensed on LGPL
Recap FIFE 0.3.0 release
- Postmortem (what went right/wrong)
- Open issues
  - List of CHANGES is inaccurate
FIFE 0.3.1 release
- Release date
- Tasks
  - Bug fixes
Future FIFE development
- Long term direction
  - Make FIFE a more fully featured 2D engine
    - Make it suitable for side scrollers/platformers as well
    - Add a physics/collision detection component
  - Improve FIFEdit
    - Tightly integrate and expose engine features
    - Make it more user friendly
    - Expose all engine features available
    - Create a nice plugin system for expandability
- 3rd party dependencies
  - Fixing vs. Removing dependency
- In-game GUI library
  - Guichan
  - CEGUI
  - Create an interface to allow multiple GUI libraries to interact with FIFE
  - Create our own GUI library and toolkit