John Burton Blog

I agree with a great deal of this awesome talk!
This entire conference was full of amazing talks. Watch them!

After a lot of years of messing about with graphics, today I decided to actually start making a game. More details on that to follow but first I’m making a renderer using OpenGL4.6 and C++23

#include "Graphics.h"

int main() {
    Graphics::CreateWindow("My Window", 800, 600);

    while (Graphics::RunEventLoopIteration()) {
        Graphics::Clear();
    }
}

So far so good…

I’m going to write it using very simple C++ in a mostly none OOP style.
I will build some modules using a mostly structs and procedures style. My first library will be ‘Graphics’ which will use OpenGL to actually draw things on the screen.

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Here is my traditional first post blog posts to test if I can get hugo to work properly.
Most of my posts will probably be about C++ and other programming languages and opengl and similar.

Maybe I’ll post a few rants (but no politics!)

Let’s see if I can link to a photo of one of my cats: