Re: SDL Perl based games

Hi Garry,
Thanks for sharing!!! they look great!
With you permission may I move these games onto CPAN?
Kartik Thakore

On 29-Aug-09, at 2:25 PM, Garry Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>    I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see  
> that it still alive and well.  I saw that some people had been  
> sharing some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as  
> well. At "http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html" you  
> can find four games I have written as well as a simple flip book  
> program to let a child play at making animation on the computer.   
> The games are "Toad" (a Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like  
> Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The  
> Buggies".  All (with the exception of Toad which in its very first  
> incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic back in 1981) were  
> written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for my little girl  
> so that she could play games which were not quite so violent as  
> games were starting to become at the time.
>
>    A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again  
> by rewriting them in Perl.  The downloads are Windows XP/Vista  
> installs which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the  
> games (the installs put the code into its own separate place, and  
> shouldn't interfere with your existing Perl setups).  I did this so  
> that I could share the games with friends and family who either  
> don't have SDL installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any  
> programming and just needed something that will run.  The code as it  
> currently stands was not written for general publication, so there  
> are probably places where the Perl code itself is not always the  
> best looking it could be, but the games themselves work pretty  
> well.  Also, it is worth noting that I wound up being lazy and made  
> a few additions to the Perl SDL code that I was using to add an  
> additional function or two for printing text onto the screen that  
> was centered or right aligned.
>
>     While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have  
> actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access  
> to, where I also had installed SDL.  I have not updated my SDL  
> installs in several years now, so there may be complications that  
> arise if running it with  a new version of SDL.
>
>     I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it  
> if you don't &^> ).
>            Garry Taylor