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-My milestones (itches) for gaming in Perl
+Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers
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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'/></div></div></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;">Beep ... Boop<br />
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+So I am preparing a presentation of the new SDL perl for February's Toronto Perl Mongers meeting. What better way to so off SDL perl then with a game? <br />
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+I started hacking a small point an click game a few days back. I really didn't have a idea in mind, but I did have a goal. I wanted to make a game that shows the basics of a game in SDL. Drawing to screen, game loops, physics and so on. I think I have accomplished it so far. <br />
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+Take a look at it <a alt="Click the balls to win" href="http://gist.github.com/301949">here</a>. Download that and call it<a alt="Click the balls to win" href="http://gist.github.com/301949">[Shooter.pl]</a>. To win click the balls.<br />
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+To play this game you need the following:<br />
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+<ul><li> <b>Only for Linux)</b> sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libsdl_gfx-dev </li>
+<li> cpan Alien::SDL </li>
+<li> Click Download Source http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/redesign </li>
+<li> Extract it </li>
+<li> perl Build.PL; perl Build; perl Build install </li>
+<li> perl Shooter.pl </li>
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+I will put up binaries soon-ish.<br />
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+It is a playable (albeit hard) game right now. All 7 seven levels of it. The purpose of the game is simple click the balls to win. Sounds easy but it isn't. You also get a time in milliseconds after each level. Share your scores on here! I will leave it up to you guys to be honest. <br />
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+I do have to tidy it up and right documentation for it. This way I will be able to present it clearly to my fellow mongers. I am also still looking for ideas to make this a more polished game. FROGGS recommend I make it a classic NES duck hunt game. I thought since I am using gravity I could do a UFO game out of it where you shoot the UFOs. I am open to your ideas.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1585061047069454098?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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