xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

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>No nomination for All Men Are Pigs: The Video Game

That's surprising.

@djsumdog I want people to remember how bullshit that era was, but I hate it when I still see remnants of that era when I go out in public.

So I started messing around with SDL and while I can't say if it's better or worse than SFML, I can say that it's pretty lower-level as expected. Of course being written in C means that functions require more parameters and you constantly need to convert string objects to c_strings (assuming you are using it with C++), but I knew that going in.

Back in my teenage years, I messed with Pygame a lot. Pygame is basically just a Python wrapper for SDL. I thought this would make learning SDL a breeze, but then I realized that Pygame is a lot more abstract as the creator thought that a simple SDL wrapper would be too much for Python programmers to handle.

I also realized that SDL is very bare-bones out of the box. You need extension libraries if you want to have music, the ability to load images other than bitmaps, or the ability to load TTF fonts. I find this weird because I thought SDL was more than just a graphics library so it should contain all those things.

Either way, I hope that SDL will cause less problems, especially when it comes to linking and porting. Hell, given that it is commonly used, I could probably get away with having my games dynamically linked and just assume that most people already have it installed.

@Dan_Ramos The Japanese should support the only non-woke American game company, my company.

https://ioncom.helioho.st/

Looking back on it, I should've included "No Demo" as an option. The only reason I didn't create a demo was that my game is FOSS therefore, freely redistributable, so I felt that including a demo was pointless even though it's a paid product.

I should have also put "You used AI" as an option because I did use AI and that makes me worthy of crucifixion in the eyes of many people, but I only used AI for backgrounds for the title screen and cutscenes, along with the prologue and epilogue text. I promise to only use AI sparingly and to prefer AI enhancement over AI generation, but I know that's not enough for the anti-AI freaks.

@icedquinn I've only messed with the graphical and GUI stuff. I realized that there is no audio DSL yet. Otherwise, I would totally recommend it as a beginner's game programming language.

@wan Thanks.