{"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.

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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.  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.

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", "time": "August 5th, 2008 1:28 pm", "title": "Perl Gaming?"}