Let me first thank all of you that were able to attend our first club meeting. I hope you all had a good time and I hope to see all of you next week, same day, same time.
Here are some useful links:
Sample Project
This is a zipped folder which contains the example project we created at our meeting. If you were able to install the IDE, just double clicking on the .dev file will start the project interface and you should be able to compile and run the program. If you have not installed the IDE and/or the SDL libraries, click here to download all the required files and follow the video tutorial in the previous post.
PDF Handout Plus Project
This link provides a zipped file that contains the code handout that everyone who attended the first meeting received. In addition it contains an SDL project of that code so you can compile and test it. Besides the SDL and SDL_image libraries that we saw at the example during the meeting, this project also includes a library called SDL_ttf that allows a program to display messages when we provide it with a True Type Font. Do not worry if something is not clear in the code. We will talk about this project in our next meeting.
Simple DirectMedia Layer Documentation
The above link will take you to the Documentation of all the methods the SDL library provides. For those of you that really want to know what each call in the sample programs does all you need to do is follow the above link and locate the method in question.
Conclusion
At the end of the meeting we decided that the first game we will try to create is a Pong game. I think it is a great game to start with.
Another thing that came up was the selection/creation of a club logo. We will need a logo so we can create a splash screen that will appear before each one of our games starts.
This, I think, sums it up when it comes to our first meeting. Feel free to comment under this post if there is something you want to share with everyone. If you are having problems with the IDE and compiling/running the sample programs, email me at pansa99@gmail.com and I will do my best to help you out. See you all next week.
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Great job, Panos, in explaining how all the components work together in our first meeting.
ReplyDeleteThere was a lot of fun stuff demonstrated and the quick looks at some of games you developed gave us an idea of what can be achieved!
Thank you!
I was able to take the downloads, apply the appropriate files and got the code I started last night working correctly!
ReplyDeleteNice to hear that Scott. It seems that the blog format is working out when it comes to providing files to everyone interested.
ReplyDeleteI know Scott was working on Windows XP. If we also have a Windows Vista success story it would be nice to hear. If someone is having problems with Vista (which seems to happen a lot since its release :-)) just let me know and I will try to work around it.
If I remember correctly, when I installed the IDE on Vista I had to run the installer as the administrator (right click on the installer and "Run as Administrator")...