Few weeks ago, I came across a series of blog posts by Nick Tasios. In that post, he wrote a simple Space Invaders with OpenGL and GLFW. I thought it was a good exercise for myself to port it into D. and it was a good opportunity to get Derelict to work.

Previously I had tried to set it up, but the lack of documentation and examples got to me. This time round, I am determined to get it to work and port Space Invaders to D. Just for the fun of it.

Setting up Derelict-GLFW turned out to be easier than imagined. Turned out, I didn't include the dlls for the GLFW for it to work properly the other time. I also managed to find some code to initialize the GLFW as well as getting it to run.

Once I got GLFW to run, the rest was porting the code from the tutorial to D. I kept the looks and feel similar of the original tutorial. Overall, building a simple game like Space Invaders is a good exercise to learn about D. Anyhow, I have finished porting the tutorial from 1 to 5, however in the near future, I hope to refactor the code somemore to make it more beginner friendly.

You can check out my code here.