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Created : 15 February 2013
Edited : 15 February 2013
System : Mac

Almost there
I have been working on my game engine all week now (3-4 hours most days) and I have finally gotten to a semi-finished state. Good timing too, considering I am back at school next week. There is a still a couple things left (like parallax scrolling and the sound/music system) but that can wait for another day.

Here is a taste with the rendering test;

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Things I have learnt;
    * Perl is great for many things, games programming is not one of them . That is probably why there isn't really any game engines on CPAN.
    * The added complexity of a multi-threaded system is not worth it in such a simple project like this one.
    * Games programming is addictive (even-though I haven't actually made a game yet )

- Zac

 

Comments
Saturday, 16 February 2013, 05:49
steve_ancell
zed Games programming is addictive (even-though I haven't actually made a game yet

Same here, I get very close but then I go off the rails.