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-My milestones (itches) for gaming in Perl
+More Games + Update
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><br /><blockquote><blockquote><i>As a young sprout in spring, </i><br /><i>the soil is moist,</i><br /><i>and the sun bright. </i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>But as fall comes,</i><br /><i>with fading leaves,</i><br /><i>my roots keep me standing. </i></blockquote></blockquote></div><br /><br /><br />As a new Perl developer I am able to contribute with <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commits/">great enthusiasm</a> due to the <a href="http://www.irc.perl.org/">great community</a> and the fancies of the language. However I know that these things will fade and I will need something else to take the place. Usually what has worked for me in the past was to set milestones. These will act as roots, keeping me interested in being involved. After all in words better than mines.<br /><blockquote><i>We all “scratch our own itches”. It’s why I started Linux, it’s why I started git, and it’s why I am still involved. --<a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html">Linus</a><br /></i></blockquote><br />So here are my evolving milestones for Gaming in Perl:<br /><ul><li> Make Tetris,Pong, so on [soon-ish]<br /></li><ul><li>Hack it until its Perly (shows the power Perl can provide for games) </li></ul><li>Do game-a-thon [Starting January 2010]<br /></li><ul><li>Simply</li><ul><li> Get two random words (Warp + hole = portal)<br /></li><li> Make a small game</li><li>Every week for 52 weeks</li></ul></ul><li>Use the results from this to make some Perl specific tools [Parallel to game-a-thon]<br /></li><ul><li>SDL::Game </li></ul></ul>--signed YAPGH<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-215619435826309735?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div></div></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
+idle digits,<br />
+play,<br />
+away,<br />
+idle digits.<br />
+</i></div><br />
+So while I am hacking away on v2.4 and <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/experimental">breaking</a> a lot of things. Here is a link to some more <a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Eg.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html">games</a> for SDL Perl. These only work in windows now but I will look into bringing them to CPAN (with Garry's permission). <br />
+<br />
+<i>--yapgh</i><br />
+<br />
+These where reported by Garry Taylor. Here is the rest of the email:<br />
+<br />
+<blockquote><i>Hi all,</i><br />
+<i>I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see </i><br />
+<i>that it still alive and well. I saw that some people had been sharing </i><br />
+<i>some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as well. At </i><br />
+<i>"http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html" you can find four </i><br />
+<i>games I have written as well as a simple flip book program to let a </i><br />
+<i>child play at making animation on the computer. The games are "Toad" (a </i><br />
+<i>Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of </i><br />
+<i>like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The Buggies". All (with the exception of Toad </i><br />
+<i>which in its very first incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic </i><br />
+<i>back in 1981) were written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for </i><br />
+<i>my little girl so that she could play games which were not quite so </i><br />
+<i>violent as games were starting to become at the time.</i><br />
+<i><br />
+</i><br />
+<i>A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again </i><br />
+<i>by rewriting them in Perl. The downloads are Windows XP/Vista installs </i><br />
+<i>which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the games (the </i><br />
+<i>installs put the code into its own separate place, and shouldn't </i><br />
+<i>interfere with your existing Perl setups). I did this so that I could </i><br />
+<i>share the games with friends and family who either don't have SDL </i><br />
+<i>installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any programming and </i><br />
+<i>just needed something that will run. The code as it currently stands </i><br />
+<i>was not written for general publication, so there are probably places </i><br />
+<i>where the Perl code itself is not always the best looking it could be, </i><br />
+<i>but the games themselves work pretty well. Also, it is worth noting </i><br />
+<i>that I wound up being lazy and made a few additions to the Perl SDL code </i><br />
+<i>that I was using to add an additional function or two for printing text </i><br />
+<i>onto the screen that was centered or right aligned.</i><br />
+<i><br />
+</i><br />
+<i>While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have </i><br />
+<i>actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access to, </i><br />
+<i>where I also had installed SDL. I have not updated my SDL installs in </i><br />
+<i>several years now, so there may be complications that arise if running </i><br />
+<i>it with a new version of SDL.</i><br />
+<i><br />
+</i><br />
+<i>I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it </i><br />
+<i>if you don't).</i><br />
+<i>Garry Taylor</i></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-500220938152318100?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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