There are a lot of great open source apps out there, for personal computers, cell phones, smart televisions, and everything in-between. But when it comes to Android, I can’t think […]
C++ and water drums….
Two things that probably don’t sound like they go together. Unless, of course, you are making a video game where you play water drums and it is written in C++. […]
FreedomPop in Alaska? Does it really work for free?
Okay, so this might sound like some kind of gimicky advertisement, but it’s not. I work on custom ROMs for various cell phones, and it is becoming a bit difficult […]
JelloStorm: Teleportation, poison rings, and more!
Okay, so I’m done with the class, but I’m still having fun! I’ve updated some of the game mechanics for JelloStorm! Some of the improvements that I have made to […]
Interviews With Open Source Developers!
Hey everyone! I’m really excited about an up and coming series on the site. It’s probably obvious that I’m big into open source. With that, I’ve always wondered about the […]
JelloStorm: Fixing defunct jello blobs….
In the last update on my game JelloStorm! we ran into the issue of defunct jello blobs. I could not figure out why there are some jello blobs that don’t […]
JelloStorm is now playable…. Mostly.
Here is a side by side comparison of my project, verses the one from the course. Now that I’ve completed the C++ beginner’s game creation course, that means I’ve also […]
Error: ‘class sf::Text’ has no member named ‘setFillColor’
Just finished section 10 of my course. While working through the code, I ran into a snag: alaskalinuxuser@alaskalinuxuser-OptiPlex-7010:~/Documents/c++/Cpp_training/JelloStorm$ ./build.sh JelloStorm.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: JelloStorm.cpp:121:13: error: ‘class sf::Text’ has no […]
Error: extra qualification ‘Pickup::’ on member ‘Picku’ [-fpermissive] Pickup::Pickup(int type);
You can now splatter jello guts all over! An interesting phenomenon occurred while finishing up section 9 of my C++ game development course. Consider this code: // Per class was: […]
C++ portability problems!
Recently, I attempted to show someone the progress of my JelloStorm game on their computer. Of course, they are using a Linux machine (Ubuntu 17.04) and I downloaded the game […]