Small video game written in D

[John Reimer]

John Reimer wrote:
> guillaume Chéreau wrote:
>> Hello all, I am writing a small video game in D.
>> The game itself is not really innovative, this is just another 
>> asteroid like game, but I wrote it as an exercise to learn D.
>>
>> You can see a screenshot here :
>> http://charlie137.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-game-guisterax.html
>>
>> The sources can be found here :
>> http://darshak.free.fr/guisterax/guisterax_0.1.tar.gz
>> The windows executable is there :
>> http://darshak.free.fr/guisterax/guisterax_0.1.zip
>>
>> Have fun !
>> Guillaume
> 
> 
> Nice work!  It compiles quite easily on windows with msys, gdc 0.24, and 
> mingw make.  The only change to the makefile for building on windows is 
> removal of "-ldl" at the end of two lines.  Maybe you can add another 
> makefile to the repository for win32 (like Makefile.win.gdc or 
> something) with these small changes?
> 
> I also tried "dsss build main.d" which successfully built an executable 
> using dmd... but this binary exits with an exception while trying to 
> load the font surface. I tried to debug this, but nothing seems to work.
> 
> The game play is quite difficult.  I like the graphics and sound but I 
> can't progress very far. :-)
> 
> John


Many pardons.  It appears that "dsss build main.d" now works.  A working 
executable can be made with dmd 1.024.

JJR