Johnny-come-lately - "How to get started?"

[earamsey]

Hi, I'm a "Johnny-come-lately" and would like to get started in development of this platform. What do I do to get started? Do I need a dev board to start development? Is there an sdk? etc.... I would like to write games!

 

[dflemstr]

Hi, I'm a "Johnny-come-lately" and would like to get started in development of this platform. What do I do to get started? Do I need a dev board to start development? Is there an sdk? etc.... I would like to write games!

Basically use SDL or something similar to create your game. The Pandora runs a normal Linux distribution, so most libraries available on a desktop Linux distribution will also exist on the Pandora.
If you want to cross-compile games to run them on the Pandora itself (there's no point in doing that now, but there will be when the Pandora is released), get a copy of the CodeSourcery ARM cross-compiler (Google it)

 

[lulzfish]

There isn't really an SDK, but it will run Python, Java, Scala, C++.. anything that has an open-source interpreter / compiler, basically.

OpenGL ES and SDL libs are guaranteed, and there's a decent chance that either the Irrlicht or OGRE engines will be available. In fact, I think Irrlicht is already running, but with OpenGL ES 1.1 rather than 2.0.

 

[cb88]

ogre3d has already been demoed on the beagleboard

steer clear of platform specific libraries and extensions like some python extensions pyro iirc... and a few others just be sure to check that it works on ARM first you can search the debian/ubuntu repos or ask here if you don't find it and are unsure if the Lib you want is available