I submitted Pix-l-tron yesterday night.\u00a0 The “low-level” tools used are C in MinGW and SDL2. The graphics suck.\u00a0 I didn’t spend any time on them, so consider them placeholder graphics.<\/p>\n
An advantage of using C and SDL over my usual tools of choice is performance.\u00a0 So, i figured, I want this to be a game with massive amounts of objects. Since I was pleasantly surprised to see that my LD27 game (two minute mayhem<\/a>) scored #144 on fun (3.5 stars), I took some ideas from that game and turned them into an arena shooter.<\/p>\n I wrote a minimalist game engine from scratch. The entire game is about 800 lines of code. It does most stuff you need for a basic game: bitmaps, sound, fonts, tiles, keyboard\/mouse.\u00a0 I figure this code may be useful for anyone who wants to make a game in SDL2, so I’m releasing it as open source (BSD).<\/p>\n You can find the game here:<\/p>\n