When I started Game development, I thought I should start with a small project and take it all the way to completion, so that I would have all the basics in place. Coding at home is nothing like coding at work… Also I wanted to build something with a website and that used OpenGL.
So I built Headline Benchmark, unashamedly the Windows Ubuntu Experience Index! It’s a bit like a game - you get scores, it uses OpenGL… Arguably, it is not a game because it does not have a game loop, although that is straying into Gaming Philosophy.
You can go along to my site and download it for yourself for Windows or Linux - it takes about five minutes to run:
http://www.headline-benchmark.com
UPDATE: Headline Benchmark is also on Android now:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clarke.agnes.benchmark.android
Direct link to the download page: http://www.headline-benchmark.com/download.jsp
After running it, you can click the Submit button to send the results to the website.
I don’t have proper installers yet - just archives and shell scripts, but I will add these as I want to put it on the Ubuntu Software Center. (And also the Windows Store, assuming that allows Java apps).
