Devlog #1: C++ and SDL2 Basics and Stuff

So I’m making a game in C++. Without a game engine. As my first experience with C++. There’s no way this could go wrong, right?

I spent half an hour installing CLion because my laptop only has WiFi 4. Then, I opened CLion only to see an error message because the runtime was missing. I then spent 1 hour downloading the clion-jre package from the AUR, at literally 500kbps.

I then spent like 10 minutes watching the programming with Mosh C++ tutorial, but I know how to code. I know what variables are. I have experience. So I decided to jump right in into making the game window. And that’s what took me almost 3 hours.

There’s almost no good SDL2 tutorials on the internet, and if there are, I didn’t find them. Except for YouTube of course, everything is on YouTube. So until I finally decided to search it up on YouTube, I spent like 2 hours trying to get a window to appear. Lowkey I was copying code from websites, but the code didn’t work anyway so I don’t think it matters.

Finally, I went on YouTube and lowkey copied the code from the builder to finally make a window.

All of that for a black screen and a single pixel of white. Great.