Is there anyone out there who would be interested in investigating the potential for SGDK2 projects to be ported to the Mono platform, which, as I understand it, is a .NET implementation that will compile C# under Linux? Probably the most significant part of this project would be investigating what kinds of accelerated graphics libraries are available through Mono under Linux. I suppose Managed DirectX would be too much to hope for, but I expect there's probably an OpenGL library or something. It would be interesting to know if the features supported by SGDK2 can be supported by an OpenGL replacement of SGDK2's Display object (and a few adjustments of other code that draws graphics onto it). Namely, it needs to support 2D matrix transformations in real time (which, in the case of DirectX are accomplished with 3D transformation matricies), and also needs to support real-time color channel (R,G,B,A) modulation when drawing a graphic onto the display. And of course it needs to support an alpha channel for all graphics.
If anyone's interested and knowledgable enough, I'd like some help coding a "Linux" or "cross-platform" template project that can be used to create projects that will compile under Mono. (And when I say "some help" I mean, I'd like someone else to do all the coding for it
.)
