Questions tagged [sdl]
SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."
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Object Collision in Breakout game using SDL library [closed]
Im trying to make a retro game of Breakout using an SDL library. Im still trying to learn developing and OOP. I got to the part where i want to check for collision between paddle and the ball, and ...
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SDL Simple Wrapper Library
I wrote a little library to generate wrappers for SDL2 in C++20 with the idea to build a simple video game with it afterwards, and was looking for some feedback on the code!
The idea is not to create ...
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Haskell SDL2 Yellow Snow Game. My first program [closed]
I have been working hard trying to learn Haskell, or at least understand it enough to make simple programs. This is my first program. I have been working on it for about a month now. I had already ...
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SDL Stream for C++ follow up
Initial review requested here:
The big thing I had missed was that read/write either work successfully (and all requested data is read/written) or it fails the flags are set appropriately.
For write ...
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SDL Stream for C++
Looking at the SDL library.
Looking to load images from file into an SDL_Surface using the SDL2 Image API to do this I need to implement the SDL_RWops object class in terms of a C++ stream.
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Chess game for two human players
I'm relatively new to programming, as in my second semester of college. To practice C, I started work on a chess game. I'm wondering if there are ways I could improve my code, make it look more ...
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Snake game in rust
I made a small rust snake game in order to teach myself rust. I would like to know what I am doing well and poorly, and how to improve my rust code
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Chess engine for chess without checks in C++
Project Description:
Chess without checks: A chess variant where you can take the enemy king.
This engine implementation is for chess without checks. Since checks don't exist, expect the code to not ...
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C++, SDL, and RAII
Learning Modern C++ patterns and this ended up being the direction I went to to create an encapsulation of SDL's window management, while trying to stay with RAII practices. This is meant to be a ...
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Testing and coding conventions for testing C with SDL
I finished my first real C project and it was Conways Game of Life. The code is working fine and the game runs. Since this was my first project though I don't know any of the real code conventions for ...
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Snake game in C++17 with SDL2
I implemented a simple snake clone in C++, using SDL2 for the graphics part. Gameplay-wise, its pretty much classic snake: The player is able to control the snake with "WASD", food gets ...
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C++ wrapper for font opaque pointer
I'm creating a class which has a raw pointer member which comes from a C function. In order to make it RAII approved, I just created a method free() that is called ...
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Modular synthesizer framework for C++
While working on a much more complicated audio application, I was thinking about modular synthesizers, and whether it could be made simple to build a C++ application that implemented a modular ...
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How to use smart pointers with SDL2 (SDL_RWops)?
I want to write read savefile function with smart pointers and SDL2. I have little expirience with smart pointers and just want to ask is my code good, correct and no memory leaks.
this is my code:
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C++ SDL2 Space Invader C++ questions
The whole project would be a bit much to post, but there were a couple of questions that came up while I worked on this project. This is a fully working space invader game I coded in C++ with SDL2. I ...
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2D Game Framework in C++ and SDL
I'm making a simple 2D framework / engine for the first time based on two books and before the project gets too big I would like to know if I'm ordering things the right way. Maybe there are better ...
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Good way to structure a SDL project
I am absolutely new to c++ and am trying to learn SDL2 with c++. I am setting up my first project and I was unsure if the way I have structured the project is good or if I have over done it. Here is ...
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A Pong Game using C++
I wrote a simple, 2-player Pong game for a Udacity Nanodegree in C++.
The program has the following class structure (relatively new to UML so any tips on here would be very much welcome too):
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Conway's Game of Life in C
My programming background is mostly C++/C#. Lately i got interested in writing some C. So i implemented Conway's Game of Life using SDL2 for visualization. This is actually my first program written in ...
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Sorting algorithm visualizer in C++ and SDL2 Improved
Original post: Sorting algorithm visualizer in C++ and SDL2
I followed the advice you gave me and improved my code. I also added two more sorting algorithms.
I'm mainly looking for code readability ...
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Sorting algorithm visualizer in C++ and SDL2
I finished a sorting algorithm visualizer (for now only uses bubble sort) and this is the code.
I'd like some suggestions to improve the memory usage or time elapsed.
Built with Cmake and Ninja on ...
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Improving performance of raycaster application
Bitbucket link to repo
Tutorial I have been following
I decided to make a raycaster app and try to understand how it really works. So far so good, I have it up and running. If you download the ...
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Snake game with C and SDL using linked lists
I am total beginner in C and after reading K&R's chapter 5, I felt I was ready to at least make a simple game using C. I know linked-lists, so since I was making an implementation of Snake, why ...
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SDL2 fixed framerate without VSync
My attempt at a fixed framerate using SDL2 without using VSync. Just using SDL_Delay left the fps a bit slower or faster due to the fact ...
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Chip8 Emulator in C++
I wrote this chip8 emulator as practice recently since my coursework is mostly console programs. I've tested it with roms off Zophar's Domain and it appears to work with my limited testing. I'm hoping ...
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SDL Initialization and Management wrappers
I am using SDL2 for window management and rendering, but it can be a little verbose. And because of how SDL2 works under the hood, the SDL_Renderer is tied to image resource loading.
So, I am ...
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Racket macro for variadic FFI
I'm working on FFI wrapper for SDL2 library in Racket. The library includes several variadic functions (e.g. SDL_SetError, SDL_LogMessage etc); Racket FFI does not have straight way for importing ...
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Pausable Timer Implementation for SDL in C
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I've written a timer module in C for an SDL game. I'd like to get some eyeballs on. I wrote this for 2 requirements: I needed a timer that would signal on an elapsed interval, AND that was ...
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Snake++ game (in C++ with SDL)
Yes, It's called Snake++. I build it to learn C++.
What features and techniques can be improved? I used SDL for some basic rendering, but my concern is more about ...
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Frame limiting in an SDL game
I am a relatively novice programmer, and I am taking steps into graphics programming. I am writing a quick pong clone and want to cap the FPS to save system resources. This is how I have implemented ...
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2048 with GUI in C
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This is my implementation of the classic game "2048" in C.
The instruction to build/run the project (GitHub repo) can be found here.
I started with the core game and then built a GUI ...
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Game loop and State Machine C++/SDL2
I just finished making a flappy bird type game and would like some feedback on my game loop and state machine. The game loop was based on deWiTTER's article, and the state machine was based off of an ...
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SDL2/C++ Pong Game
I just completed my pong game. I'm trying follow the CS50 Introduction to Game Design course. The course uses LUA and LÖVE, but I'm trying to just transfer the concepts to C++ and SDL2.
The game is ...
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TTF/SDL based class for text handling
So I'm currently working on sort of an SDL engine (may be too ambitious I know). I'm seeking that it would be my first actual project and it's also the first time I'm seriously using classes. So I ...
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SDL2/C++ Blackjack Game
I recently just finished making this blackjack game using C++ and SDL2. Although this took a lot longer than I expected it to, I feel like I'm getting a good hang of everything. However, this is only ...
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Pong Ultimate - Pong with 4 paddles
This is a pong game with 4 paddles. The paddles are always on the same height as the mouse. I wrote it in C using SDL. The Makefile works for linux. Do you think the code is readable or should I ...
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C++ Breakout game using SDL
I did a big mistake to create procedural C++ breakout game on start and now im having trouble converting it into OOP.
As far as I can see I need classes: Loptica (eng. Ball), Splav (eng. Paddle), ...
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Gameboy emulator in C
I've been coding a Gameboy emulator in C for some time(seems like a common project for people). It's reasonably functional and has some MBC1 support, but has some minor graphical glitches still. I'...
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Simple C++ SDL2 Wrapper for small game
I'm in the process of creating a simple SDL2 wrapper for a breakout clone. The real learning objectives for this project are:
Learn how to manage resources properly via wrappers
Learn more about SDL2
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C++/SDL2 Tic-Tac-Toe
This is my second attempt at creating a game. I think I have gotten the basic ideas of state machines and game loops down, but I'm sure there are still a lot of things I can learn.
It is a basic Tic-...
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SDL/C++ High-Low Guessing Game (Version 2)
So after getting a very thorough review and feedback from indi in my previous attempt, SDL/C++ High-Low Guessing Game, I decided to go through the game and fix as many mistakes as I could. But going ...
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SDL/C++ High-Low Guessing Game
I just recently finished going through all of learncpp.com's and Lazy Foo's SDL2 tutorials. This is my first program written outside of the tutorials so I assume there's plenty of room for improvement....
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Simple game loop using SDL
This is a basic game loop written in C++ using SDL. All feedback is appreciated especially feedback related to design and extensibility.
Main.cpp:
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C++ and SDL2: Snake implementation
I've created a simple "Snake" game in C++, to practice using OOP and SDL2 (this is the first time I've used a graphics library) and it works fine.
The problem is, I do more C than C++ and I'm not ...
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Pong game using SDL
This is a simple Pong game for 2 players.
Controls are ↑ and ↓ keys for the right player and W S for the left one.
There is a score for each player on top of the screen but with no win conditions so ...
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SDL2.0 Conway's Game Of Life
Yet another Game Of Life implementation code review question
I am attempting to learn SDL, and have a general (beginner) knowledge of c++. I am not a developer by trade so I expect my ...
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C++ Implementation of Conway's Game of Life with SDL2
This is my first attempt at using a visual library in C++, so for practice I decided to create the Game of Life utilizing SDL2; however, I would like help in terms of optimization and OOP.
When ...
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A simple SDL script that creates a window
Is there possibly a way to take out the nested if statements without losing the error reports? I am just learning SDL and would like to further simplify my code so ...
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Convert hex color string to SDL Color
I am writing a small game and as a part of it I load json config with colors definitions in a format of strings #00ff00.
Then I am using this function to convert ...
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2D SDL Asteroids-like game
I am writing an Asteroids clone in SDL2 using in C. I have written a game loop function that seems to work with no stutter, however I would just like to ensure my game loop will be fast and efficient ...
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