Elysian Shadows

Are you using C or C++? Your includes are for C headers (with a C++ header commented out). In your makefile, you're using KOS_CC, which should be a C compiler (vs. KOS_CXX), but you're linking with the C++ standard library (-lstdc++). If you're using C++ you might want to try std::snprintf instead (...

I've seen this one before. That's the UTF-8 encoding of a "punctuation space" (U+2008). Totally invisible but... unless you're expecting it to be there, it'll ruin your afternoon

In this context, using a reference to a pointer is somewhat senseless, possibly even unsafe, unless you intend to assign the render variable inside CreateTexture and want the new value to apply to the render variable inside main. When using a library written in C, the objects won't destruct when the...

I don't think it's practical to use the bulk of the STL without exceptions. It was designed for use with exceptions and most implementations are written with this in mind. Any flags to disable their use are hacks and will always have some issues. The EASTL specification suggests several alternative ...

A note on your proposed solution: use custom allocators everywhere(which you propably do anyway) and accept the fact that the only reasonable action on allocation failure is to optionally log/throw some violent insult at the perpetrator and then abort everything In C, there are three schools of thou...

classes and structs are very similar. unions are entirely different from both. Your book is correct in that members of classes default to private, while members of structs default to public. Why not just use classes? It can be useful to give further meaning to structs for the sake of organizing your...

Dust: An Elysian Tail. It's a 2D action RPG with INCREDIBLE graphics and very addictive combat. It was made, for the most part, by one guy, as his first foray into game development after a career of film animation, using XNA. I got it on sale a few weeks ago, let it sit in my library, decided to try...

I'm working my way through the Project Euler problems. Right now, I'm writing them in C, though I might try my hand at solving them using something functional, possibly Haskell or a Lisp, since the problems are intended as learning exercises. I'm on problem 11 after an hour or so of work, most of wh...

"You can help the force."
Are you sure it's confused?

I am not sure I see what you mean. This code produces an error in C++98/03, since it uses an initializer list, but compiles and executes correctly in C++11: Jeremiah@mercury:~/Desktop% cat myStrings.cpp #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { std::string* myStrings = new std::string[4] { ...

I'm not really aware of the current situation on the hardware market but I can give you some general advices: 1.) Your CPU has a built in GPU. If you don't need it, you should take one without it and save money. Or is it already common to have CPU/GPU hybrids? 2.) You should not save money on the h...

Well that's a real bummer. I guess it won't be hard to go back to C++ but that means I'm going to have to re-write my whole game... Would it be ok to stick with SDL for C++ then? I already know a little bit of SDL. If you have a game going already, don't rewrite it. It's more important to finish it...

What do you mean by "no longer supported"? I heard that they don't update XNA anymore but that just means that it won't be updated for future gaming technology, or so I thought. The newest version of XNA (4.0) is all I would really need to make a 2d Side Scroller. Correct me if I'm wrong....

After that it was all downhill. I'm almost 19 now, and I don't think I've gone a week without writing code since I started. Haha, I remember when I would first learn a new language I would print "Goodbye World!" instead for that very reason. #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char** ar...

I started programming in C when I was 9. After about 6 months I started using C++ on the side, but I mainly used C for the first few years. I picked up PHP at some point, which led to me writing some rudimentary DOS programs in machine code (writing binaries in hex and converting them using a PHP sc...