After a long and tiresome day at work I was really struggeling to get myself to do something productive this evening. There is no code to show off yet but I have done some research on SDL and SFML and decided to continue working with SDL for now. Although this time I’m going to use … [Read more…]
After spending a “little” more than one hour on the project today, I’m finally finished. I “only” wanted to add a background picture today but because of how the gameloop is coded, that was a little more complicated then I imagined. When things were finally working the way I wanted them to work I couldn’t … [Read more…]
Today I’m a little late. It’s actually after midnight already, but I wanted to solve my problem first. Sadly my Tetris game is not finished yet. Also – calling it “my Tetris game” sounds really wrong since it’s still very close to the tutorial. I changed some colors, added a bottom to the board and … [Read more…]
After yesterday’s slow start today was a little better. I finally got Visual Studio to work and found some time to familiarize myself with it. I also realized that it has been some time since I last used C++. While a lot seemed familiar and things like pointers made a lot more sense then back … [Read more…]
For my Devember project I wanted to start with a simple Tetris game in C++ today. And I found the perfect tutorial by Javier López promising that it would take less than an hour. But there is a catch. I currenty don’t have a C++ IDE installed and while I used Qt when we were … [Read more…]
December is a really busy time for me. It’s only the end of november and I’m already struggeling with everyhing that has to be done in the next few weeks. There is a lot of exciting stuff like a new university project that’ll allow me to play around with VR and Google Cardboard, my birthday, … [Read more…]