C++ is one of the most used languages, especially in the gaming industry. As I like to code lot in various languages, I had to try out the C++.

My coding experience in the past have been some coolbasic,random scripting languages and lots of php and mysql. So when I started coding c++, I had good knowledge of coding in general.

First “hello world” apps I build on Linux system using g++/vim. Setting up development environment and commonly used libraries on Linux was easy because of the apt-get.

Because I like playing games, I want to build my own games, so next step after the “hello world” is to get ball on the screen and move it. I build the app using sdl. This was the part where I really started to get bugs.

When I finally got the moving ball on screen working, I tried to port to windows… Working with c++, windows and custom libraries is pain on windows. I have to manually install every damn piece of libraries I want… I can’t apt-get anything…

It took couple of weeks of lazy coding to get the windows port working. After that I build small asteroids kind of game/toy, but porting that back to Linux made more problems because some variables had different values on different platforms…

Screenshot from my c++ project

So my opinion on c++ so far:

Pros

• Fast
• Multiplatform support
• Good skill to have
• Almost all modern games are build using c++

Cons

• Custom libraries are sometimes damn hard to install
• Managing variables and strings is so freaking hard… (I love php now even more)
• Freaking hard to learn some weird stuff

C++ is great language and I will try to learn more, but first I will try finish one php project…

One of the best horror/puzzle games ever is on sale at steam. You can buy 3 awesome games just for 5e! Not bad price at all

I have played demos and techdemos of penumbra long time ago, but I didn’t bought the full version. But now I got full version of every game on penumbra for very nice price.

But one of the best things that I can say about penumbra.

• Runs on every modern computer and also on older ones.
• Nice graphics
• Awesome physics engine. (Many puzzles are based on physics)
• Lots of nice puzzles
• Interesting story
• Runs on Linux/Mac/windows (But the steam version wont run on linux natively But it looks like it is possible to run this with wine.)
• Creepy game

At this price, I recommend to buy it now, as its on sale only for this weekend.

I was creating a backup from my steam folder and windows tells me that it takes 3 hours to copy… It only toked about 10mins…

When this bug is fixed? It is really annoying.

Also another annoying thing is the build-in zip extracting tool, with some files it takes about 15mins when 7-zip extracts same file in 10s.