That’s not a spelling mistake, I’m talking Perl the programming language.

I’ve known for a long time about Frozen Bubble, the excellent Bust-A-Move (puzzle bubble) clone written in Perl, but a search for other games revealed virtually nothing! This both shocked and saddened me: Perl is a great language for game programming. It might not have the compiled speed and efficiency of C, but as frozen bubble has shown, it’s perfectly capable of some 2D gaming action.

So with that in mind I aim to write a simple game in perl and SDL to fill the void.

What I’m aiming for is something based around parapper the rapper and horse racing. A wild combination, I know, but start simple and work up…