https://github.com/regb/kalec

2d game in C++
https://github.com/regb/kalec

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2d game in C++

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/regb/kalec
• Owner: regb
• Created: 2012-09-11T16:51:31.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-03-22T21:10:47.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-22T16:29:05.635Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 211 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
#KALEC

This is the official repository for the Kalec project.

Kalec is a platform-RPG 2D video game. More info will be

available soon.

##Quick start

First install the SFML library. Then:

    make depend

    make

    ./kalec

##Why using an archaic language like C++

This is a reasonnable question. Despite all its flaws and unexpected

features, I cannot really find any non-sound or non-consistant

language features. Certainly, we can contest the design principles

followed by C++, but at least it sticks to those decisions and

provide a consistant language. Unlike, for example, PHP were both

design principles and decision are horrendous, C++ chooses to place

control in the hand of the programmer and is well designed around

this (potentially bad) principle.

Additionally, low level library for graphics programming seemed much

more accessible in C++ than in Scala.

Finally, I wanted to write some relatively large program in C++, just

for the fun experience. I also want very little abstraction from the

machine, thus I try to only use only a few, and low level,

libraries.  Re-inventing the wheel is the best way to understand how

things work.

##Origin of the name

Kalec is the composition of Kale and C, Kale being the name of the

original project, which was renamed to kalec when moving from Scala

language to C++ language. The 'c' part is to refer to C++, altough

many people will complain that C and C++ are different languages,

kalec sounded better than kalecpp or kalec++.