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Welcome to Podball

Podball is a futuristic ball game simulation and programming contest.
See [PodballIntro] for an introduction or watch the Intro Video.

This website is the place where the developers and supporters of Podball plan and manage the project.

Contents

General

• [PodballNews] -- Latest news
• [PodballIntro] -- Introduction - Read this first!
• [PodballContest] -- Contest rules and dates
• Join our Google Group (English or German) - follow the link to subscribe!

Podball Control Modules Development

The programming contest part of Podball.
So you want to participate and code your own awesome Podball team? Go ahead, this section is for you...

• [PodballGame] -- Everything about the simulated game environment. Make sure you have understood this well before proceeding.
• [PodballModules] -- Introduction to Podball Control Modules. This is the place to start if you want to participate in the contest!
• [PodballModDll] -- Description of the native DLL interface
• [PodballModLua] -- Programming pods in the Lua programming language

Podball Engine & Infrastructure

The Podball game physics engine and game launcher are themselves open source community projects. This section is about the development of the underlying infrastructure.

Planning and Discussion

• [PodballTodo] -- To Do List, including next steps and their assignment to staff members
• [PodballNotes] -- Unsorted notes and ideas - a scratch pad
• [PodballScripting] -- About using scripting languages for Pods
• [PodballModNetwork] -- Ideas around a network interface for control modules

Development

• [PodballDev] -- Overview of Podball infrastructure development
• [PodballBuild] -- Build instructions

External Links

• ​http://www.fltk.org/index.php - FLTK Library home, with link to FLTK 1.1 Download
• ​http://www.fltk.org/documentation.php/doc-1.1/toc.html -- FLTK 1.1 Online Documentation
• ​http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/559-f2004/tutorials/tutorial3.html -- OpenGL in FLTK
• ​http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/ -- Erco's FLTK Cheat Page - Lots of FLTK example code
• http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/ -- Lua 5.2 Reference Manual
• https://github.com/davidsiaw/luacppinterface/blob/master/README.md -- LuaCppInterface Readme