With regards to you extending what I have done, if you want to make any additions that you think would be helpful to other readers, I would appreciate the contribution

No problem looking forward to seeing some screenshots, and keep up the good work with your tutorials. I visit your site often to see what you learned and have to show in regards to Maratis's C++ api even if its a tutorial on a single function, because eventualy I will referance what you have and extended it. 

I have no particular dislike for SCONS, I find it a little overengineered quite often, but it does it's job, and usually does it well. I can see why people might dislike it though.

Also, I just thought I would make a small anouncement here. I hope you don't feel like I'm hijacking your thread. I've got the rest of this week and next week free. I had holidays I needed to take. I should therefore have significantly more time to work on the whole particle stuff so hopefully soon I can demo that and I'll probably use my own game and finally show some screenshots of it.

Something that might interest you. I've done some video playing in a previous project, I've not done any videos-to-texture in Maratis, but I can see if I can dig out some code maybe (no promises, a lot of my old code goes walkabouts, never to be seen again).
Also, I'm currently looking into both particle systems and shaders within Maratis and will have some documentation up shortly on both I guess.

On these forums there is some example code i wrote, I had begun embededing MEngine in SFML and with that i had Video Textures (Theora/Vorbis/OGG) , 2D Graphics Api (Skia, Cairo, ImageMagick, QtPainter) all working the issue I ran into is that I could see MEngine Embeded but I couldn't see my models I might have had transformations messed up I am not sure.

But untill I finish the Premake scripts I won't be doing much coding on Maratis. Yes I dislike scons that much

Im not sure I understand, Both Love2D and Maratis3D handel lua the same. I would personaly use the luajit headers for performance reasons but thats really really easy to do. Thats how mine is setup. Then you can use luajits ffi module and write
c api bindings really easly "CSFML took an hour to bind", but binding c++ code is a whole differant monster.

I have some C and Lua examples up here http://code.google.com/p/zester/wiki/Lua_C  there is also https://bitbucket.org/alexames/luawrapper/src  and  https://bitbucket.org/alexames/luawrapperexample/src  and you can look at this http://luajit.org/ext_ffi_tutorial.html

But to me it doesn't make a differance how Maratis uses lua

I really should put some stuff for my game up, but it's currently little more than placeholder graphics so I am a bit nervous about putting anything up before I'm happy with them (a bit of a strange viewpoint from a programmer who had little to do with the creation of them, I know)

Something that might interest you. I've done some video playing in a previous project, I've not done any videos-to-texture in Maratis, but I can see if I can dig out some code maybe (no promises, a lot of my old code goes walkabouts, never to be seen again).
Also, I'm currently looking into both particle systems and shaders within Maratis and will have some documentation up shortly on both I guess.

I have to say, I'm in two minds about exposing more to lua. One issue I've had with people using something similar to what Maratis provides, in lua, is that it's very very easy to get lost in it. I think it would probably be beneficial for Maratis to more split up it's lua API into several modules, so in general, you don't have to care about the majoirity of the functionality within the low(er) level stuff when you're just looking. API documentation for hundreds of functions, however comprehensive, is daunting.

Of course, I don't have any say in this, it's entirely up to Anael, but after having an in depth look at how Love2D works, I would strongly suggest a similar method of partitioning the functionality.

Anyway, back on topic. The music sounds quite fitting. Again, I've got to say, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out

I
have absolutely no idea how your nun might fit in with your existing
plot, but she certainly seems to fit the atmosphere you've demonstrated.

I love the idea of a episodic game, too few games do it. I've considered
trying to make an episodic game myself but I honestly wouldn't know
where to begin. Will you keep a project blog or just document your
progress on here?

Well I was thinking...

Intro music plays (Scoldt – From My Guts
http://zester.googlecode.com/files/Scol … y_Guts.mp3 ) images are
shown of present earth (Alien scout drones patrolling the streets of
earth, citys and towns in ruin from the fires, rotting corpses, Humans
being hurded into concentration camps, Human growth or breeding chambers
on alien ships, warehouses on earth or ships underground?).

The nun might be the product of a breeding experament done by the
aliens, she was rescued along with some others. You and your team
rescues them unaware of whats growing inside of them untill its to late.
Then the tenticals come out of them whipping around, you see
something frantically pushing against the insides of there bellys! Its the
outline of a tiny alien babys hand!

Episodic Game: I did it this way because I hate games with no real story and I wanted
this game to be more about the story than the graphics. Also I wanted to build up a vast
array of art assets for future projects. I also wanted something easily extended. Each season is an
expansion pack and each episode is a level. A single level could be 45 - 60 min's of game play
So its like your playing the characters in a tv show.

Right now what you see is just me prototyping the game finding ideas/concepts/plots that i like
and expanding on them to see what I come up with. Thats why alot of the models are not textured.

Eventually I will be documenting the whole process from start to finish, everything from coming up with a
story idea to doing screenplays, how to turn screenplays into workable dialog, prototyping scenes and concepts
storyboarding, modeling, animation, gfx effects, sound effects, music composition, ....

Once all that is done I will be looking into Cloud Funding on Kickstart, Amazon Studios, Donations, ...
in order to raise funds to hire out developers to improve Maratis.

The feature I am looking at are mainly:
1. Playing videos on textures
2. Partical Effects
3. Shaders
4. Networking
5. Exposing more of the C++ api to lua
6. MEngine in Qt5

I enjoy doing all this stuff and really really want to see Maratis grow.

I love the idea of a episodic game, too few games do it. I've considered trying to make an episodic game myself but I honestly wouldn't know where to begin. Will you keep a project blog or just document your progress on here?

This is from an older project that I was working on but never finished. I am thinking it might fit well
in this project.

Pregnant Nun with Tentacles come out of her.

Scene 1: 

Feb 23 2012  2:28PM Earth

A mother pushes her child on a swing at the park.
The Mail Man delivers mail on is route
A Police Officer directs traffic at an inter section.

***Blank*** "Needs to be filled in"

Alien space crafts the size of a citys appear in the sky. People are pointing
at the sky, some are confused some screaming, some with no expression at all.

Judgment  Day has come but it wasn't what we thought.

The Aliens  attack, total devastation earth is lost to total ruin.

Scene 2:
The most elite of humans set off to terriform mars.
For a thousand years mars terriforms and becomes beautiful.

The date is Dec 10 3312

The human species on earth is wild no one left to save. Earth IS HELL 

The human race on mars is made up of only the ancestry of those that set off so long ago to make mars home.

Very few humans humans survive 1% of original population, earth culture is now very primitive.

The people of mars are though of as those other people that live in the sky.

Mars humans are very sophisticated, smart, advanced in technology.

***Blank*** "Needs to be filled in"

The aliens that devastated earth there mothership has come looking for them.

The aliens find that those that were sent to destroy earth were killed, finds a very different earth instead. Learns of mars.

The aliens plan on exterminating the  remaining human species.

On Mars the aliens covert attacks are nothing more than rumors of wild animal attacks.

Nice Project Zester. I will try to contribute some models whenever I can.

Regards.

Sure that would be great. Once we have a project page and more of a complete story line up
then everyone will be able to grab what we have and make new citys, planits, submit new levels or
whatever. Maybe you have a side story you would like to put together.

All of this is just a rough draft.

Runined Earth City

Regards.

For season 1 you would play out the main character for each scene.

In season 2 you might play the character of a new recruit in the military going threw basic training and then on missions and your commanding officer might be one of the main characters you met in the season 1 storyline.

For season 3 you might choose to play a  different character, maybe you are a young child and something dramatic happens to you, your family is killed and you are captured by these hostile invading aliens and eventually your season 2 character ends up on a mission were you just happen to be discovered and rescued.

There will be multiple worlds to play in our galaxy.

Maybe you end up as a ship commander and your on a mission to harvest ore from an asteroid or a type of gas from a gas giant.  Harvesting ore might lead to a new weapon design.

Your ship might be hit with micro meteorites when your harvesting and you have to repair your ship in a certain amount of time before your whole crew dies.