Honki-Tonks-Zivilisationen VS programming-with-ada

Added prototype for tooltips. Text scaling and positioning system revised. Saved user settings and databases are now checked for correctness before importing and, if necessary, are not imported. Error and diagnostic system expanded. Added a general system for determining which part of a texture to display. Started building a sound system to test sound playback. Fixed numerous bugs and incorrect behavior. Released a new version.

Working on Honki Tonk´s Zivilisationen, my 4x strategy game:

The source code is currently open and on GitHub, but since I plan to look for a publisher for it in the (near?) future, this could possibly change. Although I doubt that anyone can do much with the code. As the code is written in Ada and German and still some parts are programmed very strangely because I have no idea what I'm doing and the development originally started in the terminal. The graphics are also not included and single-colored fields/objects are displayed instead. I also live stream almost the entire development on my YouTube and Twitch channels.

As always, I've been working on my Civilization-style game:

Still working on my Civilization like game. However, due to health problems, I didn't make much progress. But I've made some important internal changes that should make development easier in the future, and improved performance in a few places.

As always, I was working on my Civilization like game. In the meantime I have created and integrated my first own textures, even if they still look quite modest, and the scaling system for textures now works correctly. I've also reworked the system for determining valid map positions and transitions, it's now faster, clearer and more compact. Plus the usual stuff like fixing a bunch of bugs, adding/revising contracts, merging duplicated code, and generally improving program stopping and error reporting.

Civ-Klon

As always on my Civilization game. I've finally managed to completely separate the logic and graphics areas. In addition, there is now a rudimentary music and sound output, a slightly improved AI, some basics for further game features and some optimization of the internal code and program structure. Hopefully this month I'll be able to create and integrate my own textures for the graphics.

I mainly worked on my Civilization-style game. Hopefully this year I'll get to a level where I can find a publisher and sell it.

I'm still working on my Civilization-style game. Most of it has now been expanded to include a complete ASFML/SFML branch. Scrolling and selecting with the mouse, general input, better menus, better display of the world map, initial display of the city map, graphic adjustments when changing the window, control of the units, a simple research menu and more now runs via the ASFML/SFML. I also split the logic and graphics part into two different tasks and improved the English translation. Still a lot of work to do until it can be sold, but things are moving forward.

I wrote up a bunch of stuff about it

I am writing an article for Programming with Ada showing how to send an IMCP using just the Ada standard library and writing your own bindings to C. This is a port of program I wrote in C++.

I have one already for my own Ada notes, but it doesn't autogenerate. Sphinx allows arbitrarily complex tables, while also providing the ability to generate the documentation and keep it locally, which would be important for people on isolated/proprietary/military networks. It would be interesting to have a site generated by a crate in Alire, so you could download and run it locally as needed.

There's also: - http://learn.adacore.com - https://pyjarrett.github.io/programming-with-ada/ - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming - The video's not available yet, but this might be useful: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/ada_outsiders_guide/

I also did a few things: - Wrote an online e-book about Ada - Septum - context-based source code search for multi-million line codebases (I use this nearly every day at work. It's being submitted as my Ada crate of the year. - dir_iterators - library similar to the incredible walkdir. - project_indicators - library for spinners and progress bars. - trendy_terminal - library for cross-platform terminal setup, VT100 support, and GNU readline-like behavior. - trendy_test - library for simple unit testing, which runs tests in parallel. - Ada Ray Tracer - an Ada port of Ray Tracing in One Weekend. - dirs_to_graphviz - Make graphviz files from directory trees. - rst_tables - a tool to draw RST table outlines.

> say, Ada programmers.

I stand summoned.

> Unfortunately, none of them ever seem to show up.

We do from time to time, but people assume our language is dead (it isn't). I learned it last year and I've been very impressed by how simple it is, given the speed you get with it.

It was a "big language" at the time, but now it's a language smaller than Rust or C++ which offers good performance with straightforward syntax.

Ada has inline assembly, easy usage of compiler intrinsics, dead-simple binding to C, built-in multi-tasking (which includes CPU pinning), a good standard library, RAII, and real honest-to-goodness built-in, not-null-terminated strings. It's a compiled language, so you get good speed in general, but the built-in concurrency really does help work which can be split up. Ada 202x is getting even finer grained parallelism (parallel for-loops) in the language itself to even further help this.

- https://learn.adacore.com/

- https://github.com/pyjarrett/programming-with-ada

- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming