{"author_name":"mocker","cat":"LD #12 - The Tower - 2008","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 5, 2008 3:15 pm","epoch":1217967300,"text":"I didn’t know that was in Perl! Or maybe I did and forgot. Still, impressive, even if it was difficult to figure out how to make it work consistently.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"nilsf","time":"August 5, 2008 3:45 pm","epoch":1217969100,"text":"Isn’t Frozen Bubble written in perl?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"mocker","time":"August 5, 2008 7:13 pm","epoch":1217981580,"text":"Yea, it looks like mariusz and frozen bubble both used Perl + SDL , so that looks like the route I’ll take. It would be nice if there was a nice wrapper for it, in the way PyGame uses SDL, but ah well, guess I’ll just have to do some actual work .","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 6, 2008 1:00 am","epoch":1218002400,"text":"Why would anyone want to program a game in Perl? For that matter, why would anyone use Perl for anything but as an example of what not to do when designing a language?","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1217960880,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74963","p_author":"mocker","p_authorkey":"28","p_urlkey":"110795","p_title":"Perl Gaming?","p_cat":"LD #12 - The Tower - 2008","p_event":"LD12","p_time":"1217960880","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"5","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"28","us_name":"mocker","us_username":"mocker","event_start":"1218153600","event_key":"89","event_name":"LD12"},"text":"

I think i’m going to do this competition. No, like really this time. I’ve yet to complete an LD48, though I have about 3 half-games sitting around from previous competitions . Thing is, I’ve been programming a lot due to my job, but almost entirely in Perl, so I’m all rusty with Python\/Pygame, C++\/DirectX or C#\/XNA which are my typical choices for a game.<\/p>\n

Does anyone have experience making a game in perl? It’s not a very common use for the language, and I really haven’t heard of any mature game\/graphic libraries for it.\u00a0 If I don’t find anything better I’ll probably just use the SDL bindings . It’d be nice if these was something similar to PyGame available though.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: perl<\/a><\/p>","time":"August 5th, 2008 1:28 pm","title":"Perl Gaming?"}