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[Orange Wizard]

In Python, you'd use the timeit module to see how fast small snippets of code run

Is there any advantage to this over time.time()?

[Mephisto]

In Python, you'd use the timeit module to see how fast small snippets of code run

Is there any advantage to this over time.time()?

This is what timeit was built for. Manually checking runtime with time.time() isn't the best measure - every run of your code won't be exactly as fast as every other run. timeit can run something a large number of times and give you results from that.

[Bumber]

Links or it didn't happen?

I know that if you're in C (Or probably C++) one option is to use a few clock() calls to get processor time, and you might be able to do the comparison that way.

Personally I'd use the <chrono> library. I think it might be higher precision.

[alway]

Something interesting for folks to take a look at; EA has now entirely officially opened up their EA STL library for the public: https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

In particular, reading the initial comments on the header files which describe the differences between it and the STD STL library. Each modification exists for a reason, often because of some thorn in their side they needed to correct. Such STL replacements are common throughout the game dev industry; and often exist to accommodate ease of porting to consoles lacking proper STL support (as can be the case for unreleased consoles still only partway through development, or things with weird specs like no exception handling).

[Putnam]

you know the L in STL stands for "library" right

anyway... actually, that could be very nice, when's the last time EA had a botched multiplatform release?

[Rose]

Actually, it makes its money back by only allowing you to use their cloud services for it.

[Orange Wizard]

All these free engines coming out of the woodwork and here I am doing OpenGL in Python

[Orange Wizard]

Look I'll get there eventually, just need more polygons

[MagmaMcFry]

Well, to what end? OpenGL by hand isn't a bad thing to do, but don't expect to make, say, a game from that basis. Or at least, never expect to finish.

I'll have you know that all the Ludum Dare entries I coded use only handwritten OpenGL (legacy mode, because need for speed). Honestly it's way easier and more flexible than using an engine or such.

[Nullsrc]

Lots of open-source games are made using OpenGL - it can certainly be done, but at the same time I've heard lots of griping that OpenGL itself is hard to work with for certain things.

[Malus]

Unity is going to be the easiest way to go, probably. But if it's just a 2D game you could use SDL and C++ which handles most of the nitty-gritty stuff for you. You'd still need to write your engine and all that entails, but you wouldn't have to deal with too many different platform nuances like manually loading OpenGL extensions on Windows.

[LoSboccacc]

if it's 2d even phaser js can fit the bill, it's veary easy to build prototypes there

[Rose]

I would use something like allegro or sdl over Unity for something like that, because for what you want to make, you'll be pretty much just using Unity as a graphics engine, and writing the rest yourself.

[itisnotlogical]

Unity's been promising a pretty neat feature called SmartSprite for a while now. I don't think it's coming anytime soon, mind you, but it looks like it'll be an actual reason to use Unity for side-scroller type games in the future. It makes level generation really easy by letting you draw polygons, then automatically tiling the texture inside and drawing the border around the outsides for you, using a tileset kind of system.

[Orange Wizard]

Unity's been promising a pretty neat feature called SmartSprite for a while now. I don't think it's coming anytime soon, mind you, but it looks like it'll be an actual reason to use Unity for side-scroller type games in the future. It makes level generation really easy by letting you draw polygons, then automatically tiling the texture inside and drawing the border around the outsides for you, using a tileset kind of system.

That actually sounds really neat.