Comments on: I’m not going to be able to finish. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/08/10/im-not-going-to-be-able-to-finish/ A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:55:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: segludian http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/08/10/im-not-going-to-be-able-to-finish/comment-page-1/#comment-3089 segludian Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:58:21 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=3183#comment-3089 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. If I had to do it over again, I probably would have tried getting SDL.net working and used C# instead. I still think that something is broken with the C++ 2005 Express Edition safe string scanning functions. I tried it with iostream, fscanf, and sscanf. However, the main problem was even with some mild cheating by using code from previous competitions I was just way too slow. 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.

If I had to do it over again, I probably would have tried getting SDL.net working and used C# instead.

I still think that something is broken with the C++ 2005 Express Edition safe string scanning functions. I tried it with iostream, fscanf, and sscanf.

However, the main problem was even with some mild cheating by using code from previous competitions I was just way too slow.

]]> By: matrin http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/08/10/im-not-going-to-be-able-to-finish/comment-page-1/#comment-3082 matrin Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:25:40 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?p=3183#comment-3082 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. 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.

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