-<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">Grant Progess Reports 1-3: Sept - Nov</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 22 November 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Grant.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Grant]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br />As you know I have received a TPF grant to write a SDL Perl Manual.<br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">SDL 2.518 Released: Neverhood Clone</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 04 October 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />So Blaizer started a Neverhood clone and fixed a lot of the Controller code to make it work nicely. This has been released as SDL 2.518. It does break back compat a bit, but not too much.<br />Have a look at http://sdl.perl.org/SDL-Deprecated.html#2_517 to see the breakages. <br />The documentation for Controller has also been improved considerably. <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">SDL Manual: Reviewers Needed</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 27 September 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Grant.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Grant]</a> <a href="tags-Manual.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Manual]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />Work has begun on the 4th chapter of the SDL Manual. The code is on github , and I regularly update the pdf on our server. <br />Writing manuals is not of my greatest skills, so I would love some review of my work. Any problems can be reported in the issues . <br />If you want to help with writing the manual, please join me on #sdl irc.perl.org or email us at<br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">SDL 2.512 released - Layers Support added</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 31 August 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />The new release of SDL adds Layer support, which means that rendering surfaces by layers is a lot easier. SDL 2.512 has several other changes too. An experimental physics interface and minor fixes. Have a look at the CHANGELOG.<br />Here is an implementation of the new Layer stuff. Solitaire .<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0005.html">Introducing SDLx::Controller::Object, with our good friend Mario!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 20 August 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Demo.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Demo]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Physics.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Physics]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Hi Folks <br />This past week I have been working on making interfacing physics with SDL rendering a lot easier. The idea was to provide the user a callback to describe the acceleration of their object in the X, Y axis and Rotation. Using this idea I have completed a preliminary work for SDLx::Controller::Object. The demo below shows an example that was made with it. The SDLx* code is available at http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl and demo code is available at http://github.com/kthakore/scroller .<br /> Mario Demo using SDL Perl from SDLPerl on Vimeo . <br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0006.html">SDL 2.511 + Using SDL for quick visualizations</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 August 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />SDL Perl 2.511 is showing great promises. The initial tests show a great deal of stability. <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL-2.511/">http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL-2.511/ <br /> Moreover we are seeing more varied users of SDL Perl.<br />John.O Writes:<br /> <br />This is for a tool that we'll be providing our dealers... it measures cellular modem signal strengths out in the middle of nowhere, so dealers can evaluate if our products will work in customers' fields. And of course, I'm using Perl/SDL for the graphics... C gets on my nerves.<br />Our company is http://smartfield.com .<br />John O.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/taMSrti4vNc" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0007.html">Perl+SDL 3D Rendering</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 31 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> Recently we have done a lot of work on the next release of SDL Perl. But it all pays off when I see users do cool things as one of the users has done below. Talon^++! This project is a great example for people wanting to learn 3D from scratch. <br /> --yapgh <br /> This was a project to test how well Perl+SDL performs and does not use OpenGL at all. This is all perl and SDL, with the help of libsdl_gfx for SDL::GFX::Primitives. Texture mapping doesn't use SDL::GFX::Primitives because textured_polygon just takes a surface, tiles it, and clips out the polygon, which doesn't look 3D at all.<br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0008.html">SDL 2.503 Released!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 22 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> SDL 2.503 has been released on to CPAN. The changes are mostly in the new features added to SDLx::* layer. However as our continuing attempt to improve cross platform support we have some low level fixes. <br /> Most interstingly we have begun work on SDLx::Sprite::Animated. Although, volatile, this addition will be highly anticipated. We look forward for more work on it soon. Additionally are the changes in SDLx::Surface. SDLx::Surface is an attempt to provide gfx, pixels, video and low level surface functions in a combined and simpler interface. <br /> Since SDLx::Sprite and SDLx::App depends on SDLx::Surface, new features will be propagated and the magic amplified! These are exciting times for SDL in Perl. So come join us for great justice on #sdl irc.perl.org or sdl-devel@perl.org . <br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0009.html">Huge World Maps in less then 100 lines</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 16 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Syntax.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Syntax]</a></span><br /> <br />Hello folks,<br />Recently we have been working on making the Perl syntax sugar for SDL in the form of SDLx. So far we have got the SDLx::Surface and SDLx::Sprite (garu++) done. So the first thing we did was throw together a quick Zelda map walker. As you can see above. The code is at http://gist.github.com/478440 . The SDL code that this depends on will be SDL 2.503 soonish . We are in the process of cleaning up some more SDLx and Alien::SDL bugs. After that SDLx::App will be overhauled to make this sort of thing even easier. Finally living up to our goal of '<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Simple Games Easy. Complex Games Possible.' <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> UPDATE: with some help, and newcomer jtpalmer'<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;">s help we have added Link <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br /> <br />--caio yapgh <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/ONip91qsKjQ" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0009.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0010.html">The Build Process of SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 07 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A while ago I had a long chat with mst on why SDL uses Module::Build rather then Make. I told him it is a simple matter of code inertia. The existing Module::Build system has worked well for us so far. Never the less, he convinced me that switching to Make will improve debugging the Build system. But to be able to switch we will need to completely replace the Build system. I am not prepared to do that so I will just present the requirements so mst or someone else can at least attempt to switch. <br /> The Build Process <br /> Alien::SDL <br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDL</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 29 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-PDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[PDL]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.<br />You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,<br />responsive animations and simulations.<br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">SDLpp.pl: Packaging SDL Scripts Alpha</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 14 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Packaging.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Packaging]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />After a lot of patches and head scratching I have an alpha version of SDLpp.pl . The purpose of SDLpp.pl is to allow SDL perl developers to package their game for end users. <br />Here is the shooter.pl packaged up:<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0020.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0020.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">Developer Release of SDL 2.3_1</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 30 November 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />The city of Rome was built,<br />with the first brick.<br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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+<div class="blog"><h1>Results for tag: SDL</h1><div><a href="blog-0001.html">Closing the Grant</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 18 January 2011</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Grant.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Grant]</a> <a href="tags-Manual.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Manual]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />With the following commit I am closing the grant.<br />This is what has been accomplished from each of the objectives:<br /> Cleaner Code and a lot of memory and performance improvements ( SDL 2.527 released Jan 18th ) <br /><a href="blog-0001.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0002.html">Grant Progess Reports 1-3: Sept - Nov</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 22 November 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Grant.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Grant]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a></span><br />As you know I have received a TPF grant to write a SDL Perl Manual.<br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0002.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0003.html">SDL 2.518 Released: Neverhood Clone</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 04 October 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />So Blaizer started a Neverhood clone and fixed a lot of the Controller code to make it work nicely. This has been released as SDL 2.518. It does break back compat a bit, but not too much.<br />Have a look at http://sdl.perl.org/SDL-Deprecated.html#2_517 to see the breakages. <br />The documentation for Controller has also been improved considerably. <br /><a href="blog-0003.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0004.html">SDL Manual: Reviewers Needed</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 27 September 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Grant.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Grant]</a> <a href="tags-Manual.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Manual]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />Work has begun on the 4th chapter of the SDL Manual. The code is on github , and I regularly update the pdf on our server. <br />Writing manuals is not of my greatest skills, so I would love some review of my work. Any problems can be reported in the issues . <br />If you want to help with writing the manual, please join me on #sdl irc.perl.org or email us at<br /><a href="blog-0004.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0005.html">SDL 2.512 released - Layers Support added</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 31 August 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-EyeCandy.html" style="font-size: 10px">[EyeCandy]</a> <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />The new release of SDL adds Layer support, which means that rendering surfaces by layers is a lot easier. SDL 2.512 has several other changes too. An experimental physics interface and minor fixes. Have a look at the CHANGELOG.<br />Here is an implementation of the new Layer stuff. Solitaire .<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0005.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0006.html">Introducing SDLx::Controller::Object, with our good friend Mario!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 20 August 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Demo.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Demo]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Physics.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Physics]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Hi Folks <br />This past week I have been working on making interfacing physics with SDL rendering a lot easier. The idea was to provide the user a callback to describe the acceleration of their object in the X, Y axis and Rotation. Using this idea I have completed a preliminary work for SDLx::Controller::Object. The demo below shows an example that was made with it. The SDLx* code is available at http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl and demo code is available at http://github.com/kthakore/scroller .<br /> Mario Demo using SDL Perl from SDLPerl on Vimeo . <br /><a href="blog-0006.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0007.html">SDL 2.511 + Using SDL for quick visualizations</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 09 August 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />SDL Perl 2.511 is showing great promises. The initial tests show a great deal of stability. <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL-2.511/">http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL-2.511/ <br /> Moreover we are seeing more varied users of SDL Perl.<br />John.O Writes:<br /> <br />This is for a tool that we'll be providing our dealers... it measures cellular modem signal strengths out in the middle of nowhere, so dealers can evaluate if our products will work in customers' fields. And of course, I'm using Perl/SDL for the graphics... C gets on my nerves.<br />Our company is http://smartfield.com .<br />John O.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4ef14C7N9N6loLPCw2LnQe-salU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/taMSrti4vNc" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0007.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0008.html">Perl+SDL 3D Rendering</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Saturday, 31 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Showcase.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Showcase]</a></span><br /> Recently we have done a lot of work on the next release of SDL Perl. But it all pays off when I see users do cool things as one of the users has done below. Talon^++! This project is a great example for people wanting to learn 3D from scratch. <br /> --yapgh <br /> This was a project to test how well Perl+SDL performs and does not use OpenGL at all. This is all perl and SDL, with the help of libsdl_gfx for SDL::GFX::Primitives. Texture mapping doesn't use SDL::GFX::Primitives because textured_polygon just takes a surface, tiles it, and clips out the polygon, which doesn't look 3D at all.<br /><a href="blog-0008.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0009.html">SDL 2.503 Released!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 22 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> SDL 2.503 has been released on to CPAN. The changes are mostly in the new features added to SDLx::* layer. However as our continuing attempt to improve cross platform support we have some low level fixes. <br /> Most interstingly we have begun work on SDLx::Sprite::Animated. Although, volatile, this addition will be highly anticipated. We look forward for more work on it soon. Additionally are the changes in SDLx::Surface. SDLx::Surface is an attempt to provide gfx, pixels, video and low level surface functions in a combined and simpler interface. <br /> Since SDLx::Sprite and SDLx::App depends on SDLx::Surface, new features will be propagated and the magic amplified! These are exciting times for SDL in Perl. So come join us for great justice on #sdl irc.perl.org or sdl-devel@perl.org . <br /><a href="blog-0009.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0010.html">Huge World Maps in less then 100 lines</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 16 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Example.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Example]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Syntax.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Syntax]</a></span><br /> <br />Hello folks,<br />Recently we have been working on making the Perl syntax sugar for SDL in the form of SDLx. So far we have got the SDLx::Surface and SDLx::Sprite (garu++) done. So the first thing we did was throw together a quick Zelda map walker. As you can see above. The code is at http://gist.github.com/478440 . The SDL code that this depends on will be SDL 2.503 soonish . We are in the process of cleaning up some more SDLx and Alien::SDL bugs. After that SDLx::App will be overhauled to make this sort of thing even easier. Finally living up to our goal of '<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Simple Games Easy. Complex Games Possible.' <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> UPDATE: with some help, and newcomer jtpalmer'<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;">s help we have added Link <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,'Bitstream Vera Sans',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br /> <br />--caio yapgh <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/c0ScjYCjwVOpMfey5qcm_RKKLBs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/ONip91qsKjQ" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0010.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0011.html">The Build Process of SDL Perl</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 07 July 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> A while ago I had a long chat with mst on why SDL uses Module::Build rather then Make. I told him it is a simple matter of code inertia. The existing Module::Build system has worked well for us so far. Never the less, he convinced me that switching to Make will improve debugging the Build system. But to be able to switch we will need to completely replace the Build system. I am not prepared to do that so I will just present the requirements so mst or someone else can at least attempt to switch. <br /> The Build Process <br /> Alien::SDL <br /><a href="blog-0011.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0012.html">SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDL</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 29 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-PDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[PDL]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.<br />You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,<br />responsive animations and simulations.<br /><a href="blog-0012.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0013.html">Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixels</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 23 June 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Pack.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Pack]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Surface.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Surface]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces. <br /> The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this: <br /> SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y ) <br /><a href="blog-0013.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0014.html">SDLpp.pl: Packaging SDL Scripts Alpha</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 14 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Packaging.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Packaging]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />After a lot of patches and head scratching I have an alpha version of SDLpp.pl . The purpose of SDLpp.pl is to allow SDL perl developers to package their game for end users. <br />Here is the shooter.pl packaged up:<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0014.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0015.html">Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Friday, 07 May 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-API.html" style="font-size: 10px">[API]</a> <a href="tags-Design.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Design]</a> <a href="tags-Docs.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Docs]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> The road so far <br />Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405 is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br /> Getting people to use SDL Perl <br />After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br /> Tutorials/Documentation<br /> <br /> We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck <br /> What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners? <br /> A project start to finish? <br /> Individual tutorials for various topics? <br /> What needs to go in SDL::CookBook? <br /> <br /> API sweetness <br /> SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries <br /> This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces <br /> How do people design this stuff? <br /> We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought <br /> Any takers? <br /> <br /> Distribution <br /> If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus <br /> One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone <br /> Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games? <br /> If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org. <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9LDtns437JWMVWJoUGIR6gCE1W0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/EXlozhjfhdo" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0015.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0016.html">Games::FrozenBubble: It is a start!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 12 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br />We released a playable (client) frozen bubble on CPAN . There is more work to be done but it is a great start! It currently works on Windows and Linux.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <br /><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/28KepidbDodIEOBBaPgsiIFpD3o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YetAnotherPerlGameHackeryapgh/~4/gHnHwFtAvFE" height="1" width="1"/><br /><a href="blog-0016.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0017.html">Release SDL 2.4: Frozen-Bubble begins to go to CPAN</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 06 April 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Frozen-Bubble.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Frozen Bubble]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br />SDL 2.4 is released! <br />After 8 months of work this picture begins to sum it up:<br /><a href="blog-0017.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0018.html">A summer of possibilities (SDL_perl and GSOC 2010 )</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, 30 March 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-GSOC.html" style="font-size: 10px">[GSOC]</a> <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> GSOC 2010 <br /> As many of the readers must know The Perl Foundation has been accepted for the GSOC 2010 program. There are several SDL_perl mentors involved in it too. Right now we are accepting student applications. <br /> Process to Apply <br /><a href="blog-0018.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0021.html">New build system! Needs testing!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 18 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Building.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Building]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><a href="blog-0021.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0022.html">Quick Game for Toronto Perl Mongers</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Thursday, 11 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Game.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Game]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-TPM.html" style="font-size: 10px">[TPM]</a></span><br /> <br /> Beep ... Boop<br /> <br /><a href="blog-0022.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0023.html">SDL_perl 2.3_5 is out!</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Monday, 01 February 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> We keep on rolling,<br />rolling,<br />waiting on the world to turn. <br /><a href="blog-0023.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0024.html">Threaded XS callback finally gets solved.</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Wednesday, 06 January 2010</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a> <a href="tags-Updates.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Updates]</a> <a href="tags-XS.html" style="font-size: 10px">[XS]</a></span><br /> <br />Dragged down from the lofty isles,<br />into the guts and gore of the monster,<br /><a href="blog-0024.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div><hr /><div><a href="blog-0025.html">SDL Alpha 2: A sneak preview</a><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Sunday, 06 December 2009</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10px">Tags: <a href="tags-Perl.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Perl]</a> <a href="tags-Releases.html" style="font-size: 10px">[Releases]</a> <a href="tags-SDL.html" style="font-size: 10px">[SDL]</a></span><br /> Pretty or Ugly, <br /> Code is Code <br /> New or Old, <br /><a href="blog-0025.html" style="font-size: 12px">[more]</a><br /><br /></div></div>
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