Best way to learn 2d games with D?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 3/15/20 4:12 PM, Jordan Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 March 2020 at 17:58:58 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I want to try and learn how to write 2d games. I'd prefer to do it 
>> with D.
>>
>> I've found a ton of tutorials on learning 2d gaming with other 
>> languages. Is there a place to look that uses D for learning? Should I 
>> just start with another language and then migrate to D later? Anyone 
>> recommend any specific tutorial/book?
>>
> 
> I'm on a similar journey myself, I'll list my findings, maybe it could 
> be useful for you.
> 
> I decided on a game programming library. I mostly looked at SFML and 
> Allegro, and found both to have good bindings available in D, and good 
> documentation, and got minimal examples working with both. I went with 
> SFML, simply because there was a book written specifically about writing 
> a game in SFML. I didn't see any such books for Allegro (although there 
> are plenty of tutorials/articles).
> 
> I learnt about the "game loop". Bauss touched on it in his post, and I'm 
> sure there are a lot of tutorials on it. I specifically learnt about it 
> from the first few chapters of the SFML Game Development book.
> 
> I learnt about game design. In doing so, I came across 
> Entity-Component-System design pattern. I decided to use this pattern, 
> for no other reason than to try something other than OOP.
> I found these links useful:
> https://medium.com/ingeniouslysimple/entities-components-and-systems-89c31464240d 
> 
> https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/component.html
> https://www.richardlord.net/blog/ecs/what-is-an-entity-framework.html
> 
> I started writing a game, using the derelict-sfml2 as my game library 
> (again, I found the allegro library to be good too), and entitysysd to 
> provide the ECS framework (there are a few ECS written in D available). 
> Are they the best choices? Is SFML technically limited? Will I cope with 
> ECS beyound the toy game example? No idea. But I'm having a lot of fun, 
> which I think for a hobby project, is a fairly good measure of success ;-)
> 

OK, I will take a look there. I am running through some basic SDL game 
video tutorials right now.

Thanks everyone for the pointers.

-Steve