This is a continuation of my original blog that has been on hold for quite some time now. I will enlighten you about my progression to making a working copy of either Tetris or Pong, hopefully by the end of the summer.
Programming games is harder than you might think. Do you ever think about why you're not running through the wall while playing Call of Duty? Do you ever consider the possibility than by changing one value, Mario would never jump again? Of course you don't, otherwise you get either shot, eaten or a little of both. (Most likely by gun wielding zombies.)
It gets worse than that though, because before you even get to handling you characters interaction with walls, there's the simple matter of getting images on the screen, or getting a screen at all that isn't command prompt. I've been experimenting with a graphics library called SDL. That doesn't tell you anything, but it sounds important.
I've progressed so far as to being able to put an image on the screen and making it do stuff when i use my mouse or arrow keys. I've been progressing rather slowly both because i'm lazy and i've discovered this library in the middle of my exams.
This concludes my first blog posting, uninformative and short though it was. At least it will stand as a preview of how other posts will look like in this section, in case you were still hesitant to post here.
Programming games is harder than you might think. Do you ever think about why you're not running through the wall while playing Call of Duty? Do you ever consider the possibility than by changing one value, Mario would never jump again? Of course you don't, otherwise you get either shot, eaten or a little of both. (Most likely by gun wielding zombies.)
It gets worse than that though, because before you even get to handling you characters interaction with walls, there's the simple matter of getting images on the screen, or getting a screen at all that isn't command prompt. I've been experimenting with a graphics library called SDL. That doesn't tell you anything, but it sounds important.
I've progressed so far as to being able to put an image on the screen and making it do stuff when i use my mouse or arrow keys. I've been progressing rather slowly both because i'm lazy and i've discovered this library in the middle of my exams.
This concludes my first blog posting, uninformative and short though it was. At least it will stand as a preview of how other posts will look like in this section, in case you were still hesitant to post here.
Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:31 pm by Tacoline
