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airplanes
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A 2D shoot 'em up game made with Ebitengine https://github.com/m110/airplanes
Play https://m110.github.io/airplanes/
- Show HN: I made a 2D shoot 'em up game with Go, using Entity Component System
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Hacker News top posts: Dec 1, 2022
Show HN: I made a 2D shoot 'em up game with Go, using Entity Component System\ (0 comments)
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I made a 2D shoot 'em up game with Go and Ebitengine. Featuring ECS (Entity Component System).
One of the most complex behaviors is evolving airplanes after collecting power-ups. It animates two sprites over time, the code is here.
raylib-5k
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Making Games in Go for Absolute Beginners
A game made with it for raylib game jam along with the raylib bindings and other engine stuff: https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-5k
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Show HN: I made a 2D shoot 'em up game with Go, using Entity Component System
I do also really like Go for various reasons, and have been working on a Go -> C++ transpiler and associated ECS libs to make a personal game project with. I used it to make a game for Raylib game jam earlier this year too: https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-5k You can see what the development workflow looks like in this video (the ECS stuff also has an editor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8He97Sl9iy0
I'm trying to decide how much time I should devote to making this easier to set up / use by other people in the medium term, since it's just a side project for me. Might make a codespaces template so it's quick to get started.
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Why Am I Excited About WebAssembly?
For the client I use a simple go -> c++ compiler I wrote and compile to wasm from that actually. It had zero overhead interfacing to / calls to C/C++ (including generics<->templates) since it's just generating that. Example web game made with that: https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-5k
I think I've seen wasmtime before. If I needed to interface to any C/C++ things on the server I would probably just write in C/C++ (or Gx) yeah.
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Generics can make your Go code slower
Sweet! I've been using it for the same. Example game project (did it for a game jam): https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-5k -- in this case the Go gets transpiled to C++ and runs as WebAssembly too. Readme includes a link to play the game in the browser. game.gx.go and behaviors.gx.go kind of show the ECS style.
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Packet Lost: A game (playable in browser!) made for Raylib jam using a Go->C++ transpiler and WebAssembly. GitHub repo link in comments!
GitHub repo: https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-5k
What are some alternatives?
shark - Gura on your desktop!
donburi - Just another ECS library for Go/Ebitengine
goloader - load and run golang code at runtime.
GeoDesk - Fast and storage-efficient spatial database engine for OpenStreetMap data
usbarmory - USB armory - The open source compact secure computer
moonshot-rts - An RTS game made in Go for Github Game Off 2020
temporal-polyfill - A lightweight polyfill for Temporal, successor to the JavaScript Date object
kage-desk - You know Ebitengine but not Kage?!
proposal - Go Project Design Documents
thiserror - derive(Error) for struct and enum error types
proposal-temporal - Provides standard objects and functions for working with dates and times.