{"author_name":"Luthwyhn","cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2011 5:40 pm","epoch":1304030400,"text":"Try ‘allegro’. It’s nice and simple, and lets you focus on the gameplay stuff without worrying too much about the details.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1304028360,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"67107","p_author":"Luthwyhn","p_authorkey":"3911","p_urlkey":"102908","p_title":"Haven\u2019t even started and I\u2019m already lost!","p_cat":"LD #20 - It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take This!","p_event":"LD20","p_time":"1304028360","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3911","us_name":"Luthwyhn","us_username":"\/author\/luthwyhn\/","event_start":"1304035200","event_key":"6","event_name":"LD20"},"text":"

So… I don’t know what to do, and am looking for some advice from the LD community.\u00a0 My original plan was to compete this weekend using a little SDL-based framework I’d been working on… it still needs some work to get things like sound going, though, and is a little clunky.\u00a0 After looking at what a few other people were using, though, I found out about SFML and got really excited about using it instead of SDL, and went ahead and re-wrote most of my framework using SFML… only to realize that I was using an obsolete version (1.6), which doesn’t support a couple key things I want to be able to do.\u00a0 I’ve tried for several days now to get cmake to run on my machine to be able to instal SFML 2.0, but it hasn’t worked for me at all, and I’m completely burned out on it:\u00a0 I wanted to spend this week coding and warming up for the LD, but instead I wasted it on trying to install a dang library!\u00a0 Now I don’t know what to do at all… I feel tired of dealing with these libraries… I could go back to my old framework, but I still haven’t added sound support to it, and at this point will probably not have time to do so.\u00a0 Are there any other good options that I am just missing?\u00a0 Is there an easier way to get SGML2 working?\u00a0 Is there another C++ library I could quickly adapt to?\u00a0 Or is Pygame simple enough that I can pick it up on the fly?\u00a0 Any ideas are welcome!<\/p>\n \n

Tags: help<\/a>, journal<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 28th, 2011 5:06 pm","title":"Haven\u2019t even started and I\u2019m already lost!"}