Perl SDL Games and Hacks

Scott Walters will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Many Perl programmers, given a free weekend, can’t think of anything more fun than playing with computer graphics.  This talk shows off a number of my own adventures as well as hacks by other members of the Perl community.

I’ll talk about:

  • Opening that window or going full screen
  • Reading from the keyboard and mouse
  • Getting stuff onto the screen
  • Animation
  • Gravity and velocity
  • Collision detection
  • Simple enemies (finite state automata)
  • Geometry for games

Seeing several examples of Perl SDL and how they were written should educate and inspire you to dabble with your own ideas.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]

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