matt’s

Miscellaneous

• Electively serialize to/from XML or binary in C++
  During development, it’s nice to have data in a structured, human-readable format which can be quickly edited with a text editor. For production, it’s often preferable to have a nice and tight format which saves space, is quickly to read and write and hides information from the users curious eyes. The tutorial shows a simple way to electively serialize to/from XML or binary in C++.

Projekt E

Projekt E was a tutorial for a horizontal space shooter I started while I was writing my diploma thesis back in 2003. (Yes, I actually prefered to write a tutorial.) The idea and artwork behind Projekt E is based on an unfinished sechsta sinn project; the entire tutorial code is written in C++ and uses SDL.

Please note that this tutorial is unfinished, no longer up-to-date and does not resemble my current code style. Moreover, it’s in German.

• Teil 1: Einführung und Vorbereitungen
• Teil 2: Das erste SDL Programm
• Teil 3: Eine Debug-Hilfe
• Teil 4: Managing A Game I
• Teil 5: Managing A Game II
• Teil 6: Und Action
• Teil 7: Tastaturabfrage
• Teil 8: Der Gleiter des Spielers
• Teil 9: Fehlerbehandlung
• Teil 10: Geordnetes Chaos I
• Teil 11: Geordnetes Chaos II
• Teil 12: Feindkontakt
• Teil 13: Resource Preloading
• Teil 14: Tiefensortierung
• Teil 15: Kollisionsabfrage