Archive for the ‘Game Programming’ Category

What is game programming

What is game programming What is game programming? Well, I suppose game programming is a little bit of everything in the computer science world. Programming games is one part science, one part art, and one part fun (most of the time!). Programming games is much different than “normal” programming. Traditional business apps today are largely [...]

August 27, 2011 · crow · One Comment
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SDL & OpenGL Game with C++ – Part II

Parts in the Series Part I – Getting Started Part II – Drawing a Quad Rendering a Quad with OpenGL and SDL Ok, so if we are going to program a video game then we need to draw something with OpenGL. That being said, last time we left off with a basic framework for creating [...]

December 8, 2009 · crow · 3 Comments
Posted in: C/C++, Game Programming, Programming

SDL & OpenGL Game with C++ – Part I

Parts in the Series Part II – Drawing a Quad Getting Started I think I’ve spent too many late nights playing multiplayer Modern Warfare 2 and now I feel the need to build a small game of some kind. Game programming is fun, and although I’ve never done it professionally, I have dabbled with it [...]

November 23, 2009 · crow · 2 Comments
Posted in: C/C++, Game Programming