Hi Garry,
Thanks for sharing!!! they look great!
With you permission may I move these games onto CPAN?
Kartik Thakore
On 29-Aug-09, at 2:25 PM, Garry Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see
that it still alive and well. I saw that some people had been
sharing some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as
well. At "http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html"; you
can find four games I have written as well as a simple flip book
program to let a child play at making animation on the computer.
The games are "Toad" (a Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like
Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The
Buggies". All (with the exception of Toad which in its very first
incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic back in 1981) were
written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for my little girl
so that she could play games which were not quite so violent as
games were starting to become at the time.
A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again
by rewriting them in Perl. The downloads are Windows XP/Vista
installs which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the
games (the installs put the code into its own separate place, and
shouldn't interfere with your existing Perl setups). I did this so
that I could share the games with friends and family who either
don't have SDL installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any
programming and just needed something that will run. The code as it
currently stands was not written for general publication, so there
are probably places where the Perl code itself is not always the
best looking it could be, but the games themselves work pretty
well. Also, it is worth noting that I wound up being lazy and made
a few additions to the Perl SDL code that I was using to add an
additional function or two for printing text onto the screen that
was centered or right aligned.
While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have
actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access
to, where I also had installed SDL. I have not updated my SDL
installs in several years now, so there may be complications that
arise if running it with a new version of SDL.
I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it
if you don't &^> ).
Garry Taylor
