{"author_name":"segludian","cat":"LD #12 - The Tower - 2008","comments":[{"author_name":"matrin","time":"August 10, 2008 9:25 am","epoch":1218378300,"text":"What would you do if you wouldn’t worry about croos platform? I use mostly standard libs, and SDL which is cross platform, so i usualy don’t pay any attention to that, i assume it will work on other platforms as well.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 10, 2008 10:58 am","epoch":1218383880,"text":"I was using SDL too. The platform specific things that were throwing me for a loop were getting all the files in a folder or having a platform independent path separator variable (I thought SDL had that one but I couldn’t find it). I also wanted something that would give me the folder the executable is located in. I don’t think linux has anything easy for that. I was largely wanting it to be platform neutral so people who only had linux\/mac might be able to judge it. That and I wanted an excuse to buy me a linux based eee-pc, or maybe a mac laptop.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1218377640,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"74673","p_author":"segludian","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"110505","p_title":"I\u2019m not going to be able to finish.","p_cat":"LD #12 - The Tower - 2008","p_event":"LD12","p_time":"1218377640","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1218153600","event_key":"89","event_name":"LD12"},"text":"

I tried, but I just can’t get anything going quick enough. I struggled with file I\/O so much it wasn’t even funny. I am half convinced that something is broken in the libraries. I’m just going too slow to finish something. It is a shame since it is my favorite theme in a long time.<\/p>\n

On the plus side besides learning just how weak my C++ skills have become, I did learn a little something about SDL_ttf. Not much but enough to write a string to the screen, and found some free fonts I could have redistributed with my game.<\/p>\n

I spent too much time downloading updated libraries on my slow slow connection. I never did get boost to download. I also spent too much time trying to make my code cross-platform. Even though I have nothing to test whether it was actually cross-platform or not. However, so the whole thing isn’t a waste, I have included a screen capture below. Better luck next time I guess.<\/p>\n

Oh, I tired out the compo game loader. It is really cool.<\/p>\n

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