The Game Kit is a collection of software that's especially useful for developing games. Currently, the collection consists of just one class, BWindowScreen, but it will grow in future releases. A BWindowScreen object gives an application direct access to the screen--that is, direct access to the driver for the graphics card so it can bypass the Application Server, customize the card for the game, call graphics functions the driver implements, and draw directly into the frame buffer.
Although designed with games in mind, nothing in the Game Kit is restricted to game applications. Other kinds of applications can profitably take advantage of this Kit.
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