Can You Make a Game Without an Engine in 45 Minutes? - Sos Sosowski

Complexity of game productions depends mostly on complexity of the game itself, not the underlying architecture. Nowadasy most developers cannot imagine creating a game without a pre-made engine. During this interactive experience I would like to prove that not only it is not hard to maek games without an engine, but that it can also be easier, as it takes away the complexity brought upon by layers of abstraction that come with a game engine.

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Contents:
0:00 – Intro: Live-coding a full game in C from scratch
2:00 – Concept: Simple fly-swatting game, inspired by Allegro.js
4:00 – Creating an empty C project and basic setup
6:00 – Creating a window using raw WinAPI (CreateWindow)
10:00 – Registering window class and handling errors properly
14:00 – Implementing message loop and WindowProc
18:00 – Showing the window and handling user input
22:00 – Loading bitmap images from files
25:00 – Rendering graphics with BitBlt and TransparentBlt
30:00 – Animating fly movement using random values
35:00 – Tracking mouse position with WinAPI (LPARAM)
40:00 – Drawing weapon sprite at cursor location
43:00 – Detecting clicks and checking collision with the fly
47:00 – Displaying splat image on successful hit
50:00 – Wrap-up: game logic finished, full game runs from scratch

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