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<\/p>\n There was a “R-Type contest” last year at a SDL tutorial site (eventually cancelled), and I contemplated writing something. I didn’t do much (a scrolling background and a movable “ship”), though that test app recently helped me test a lot of scrolling-related issues (vertical sync, crt vs. flat displays smoothness, opengl vs. software rendering in the galaxy of GNU\/Linux possible configurations, etc.).<\/p>\n
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My goal for this week-end is to produce at least one playable and FUN level.<\/p>\n
The title is a tribute to a well known side-scrolling shooter from the Genesis\/Megadrive era (as for ducks, I’ve been crossing a few of them for the past few months, I can’t explain :p).<\/p>\n
Over last week I experimented with fixed logic framerate and independent graphic framerate, as described at http:\/\/dev.koonsolo.com\/7\/dewitters-gameloop\/ and in the Fixed Rate Pig demo (olofson: cheers! – and please name your variables better ;)). This is my starting point, written in Pygame. During the week-end I’ll try to focus on the game itself rather than toying with programming concepts.<\/p>\n
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