noam-c/EDEn — Issue #12: Investigate Webkit-based libraries for game and menu UI
Author: noam-c
Created: 2011-12-03 08:53:44+00:00
State: open

Guichan does require significant time investment to create and tweak a UI and its behaviours. As well, now that it is no longer actively maintained, bug fixes and new updates for the UI will be fewer and further between.

Lately, there have been a number of games using Awesomium or Berkelium to drive the game UI. This WebKit-based approach allows for more customization of the UI without changing the game code significantly (except to provide the necessary JavaScript hooks).

We need to investigate the potential benefits and costs of this approach, keeping in mind that whichever library we use needs to be picked up by CMake and properly link to EDEn on Linux, OS X and Windows, just as our other external dependencies do.