Hi hilaire Some students at Prague are working on different 2D games with Bloc and this is working. Some did a sokoban, other a miner (check on pharo weekly).
They use Bloc and I will ask them to make public their code. No need for SDL. SDL is ***low level***. Now modeling the board and proposing some abstractions that can be easily extended is difficult. and this is what lauraMaximilliano did in MetaBorg. It was on my todo to do a pass. I implemented a grid to help the design of board game. Now having direction/location can be good. What is interesting in the design of metaborg is that we do not test if an object can move to a place. We go to the place and the place pull the item. A wall will not pull for example while a empty slot will pull the item to move. I found it intriguing and I would like to know if this is working for more complex situation. Maximiliano implemented sokoban, tetris, snake, pacman with the same framwork. Now it is a bit abstract but an interesting experience. Stef On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> wrote: > I am *exploring* if Pharo will be suitable to have a simple programming > environment to let kids write simple 2D games, SDL was designed for that. > > Some of my students asked me about programming games, Smalltalk way of > writing code will be neat, but the environment need to be accessible and not > over engineered. > > > Le 30/12/2017 à 22:32, Stephane Ducasse a écrit : >> >> What kind of game are you targeting? Did you look at Bloc? Because to >> me this is the way to go except if you want just a canvas >> and reimplement your event loop. in that case SDL + Athens should work. > > > -- > Dr. Geo > http://drgeo.eu > > >
