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bracket-lib
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Does anyone care about CLI/TUI games?
I think having to use a terminal is the scary part for many people. rltk/bracket-lib can be used to get a similar look and feel if that's what's important, but it is geared toward roguelikes.
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Minimal 2D library for games? I'm struggling a bit to settle on one to learn.
Maybe bracket-lib from the amethyst authors? I‘m currently working through that book and find the library quite intuitive and simple to use. It started out as a toolkit for rouge-like games but has been getting more general. On that note, I recommend the hands-on-rust book which teaches rust concepts while building games with bracket-lib. As you have read the book, I‘m sure you would get through the first chapters quickly.
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Bevy ECS or custom implementation?
https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib has a great integration with Bevy, designed for exactly this sort of thing.
- Turn-based game - architecture feedback/opinons
- libtcod use 8x8 font but scaled up to 16x16?
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How difficult could it be to make a console program that looks like this and has a game loop running on a separate thread? Any suggestions or crate recommendations are welcome!
I've been doing some experiments with terminal based games and landed on https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib It's not exactly terminal based in the sense that it actually runs on OpenGL by default. But that's a plus imho because dealing with the bits of the terminal window that can change outside of your control (like fonts, window resize, etc) is a giant pita. It does let you swap the backend to run on crossterm if that's what you really want to do but if what you're after is the aesthetic like I am having bracket_lib handling all that makes life so much better.
- Rendering TUI To Web
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Sharing Saturday #420
Bracket-Lib for Bevy Github
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Sharing Saturday #418
Bracket-Terminal/RLTK for Bevy Github Branch | Twitter | Patreon
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Sharing Saturday #416
bracket-lib 👈🏻 (using this now)
entt
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Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection
EnTT is a popular alternative to flecs for C++, which has different performance/memory characteristics.
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Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai
https://pastebin.com/VPypiitk This is a very small experiment i did to learn the metaprogramming features. its an ECS library using the same model as entt (https://github.com/skypjack/entt). In 200 lines or so it does the equivalent of a few thousand lines of template heavy Cpp while compiling instantly and generating good debug code.
Some walkthrough:
Line 8 declares a SparseSet type as a fairly typical template. its just a struct with arrays of type T inside. Next lines implement getters/setters for this data structure
Line 46 Base_Registry things get interesting. This is a struct that holds a bunch of SparseSet of different types, and providers getters/setters for them by type. It uses code generation to do this. The initial #insert at the start of the class injects codegen that creates structure members from the type list the struct gets on its declaration. Note also how type-lists are a native structure in the lang, no need for variadics.
Line 99 i decide to do variadic style tail templates anyway for fun. I implement a function that takes a typelist and returns the tail, and the struct is created through recursion as one would do in cpp. Getters and setters for the View struct are also implemented through recursion
Line 143 has the for expansion. This is how you overload the for loop functionality to create custom iterators.
The rest of the code is just some basic test code that runs the thing.
- Crash Course: entity component system
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Introducing Ecsact
Since we wanted a common game simulation that would be on both the server and the client we looked into a few libraries that would fit our ECS needs. It was decided we were going to write this common part of our game in C++, but rust was considered. C++ was a familiar language for us so naturally EnTT and flecs came up right away. I had used EnTT before, writing some small demo projects, so our choice was made based on familiarity. In order to integrate with Unity we created a small C interface to communicate between our simulation code and Unity’s C#. Here’s close to what it looked like. I removed some parts for brevity sake.
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Sharing Saturday #472
Are you sure you don't want to use a C++ package manager? Libtcod is on Vcpkg and with that setup you could add the fmt library or EnTT. fmt fixes C++'s string handling and EnTT fixes everything wrong with the entities of the previous tutorials.
- Where can I find the juiciest, most complex and modern c++ code?
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What are the limits of blueprints?
There's also a performance question. While we can now use Blueprint nativization to convert Blueprints to C++ the result will be a fairly naive version, fast enough for most purposes but not if you're trying to push every bit of performance. This is where you're looking at making sure you're hitting things such as using the CPU cache as well as possible for an ECS system (Look at ENTT or Flecs if you want to see what they're about and why you'd want one), or a system needing to process massive amounts of data quickly such as the Voxel Plugin.
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any resources for expanding on ECS?
For a modern engine you’re probably best looking at Unity’s DOTS. You may also want to check out some of the different open source ECS libraries such as flecs and EnTT are two popular ones for C++, but there’s lots of them. Largely you’ll see lots of different approaches taken, all with their own pros and cons. Not all of them will be performant (some focus more on the design benefits) while others will be optimised for certain use cases. What you should prioritise will depend on your specific needs.
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DynaMix 2.0.0 Released
You can think of DynaMix as combining one of these libraries with an ECS like entt(https://github.com/skypjack/entt)
- Flecs – A fast entity component system for C and C++
What are some alternatives?
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
flecs - A fast entity component system (ECS) for C & C++
Amethyst - Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust
Hazel - Hazel Engine
VTerminal - A new Look-and-Feel (LaF) for Java, which allows for a grid-based display of Unicode characters with custom fore/background colors, font sizes, and pseudo-shaders. Originally designed for developing Roguelike/lite games.
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
libtcod - A collection of tools and algorithms for developing traditional roguelikes. Such as field-of-view, pathfinding, and a tile-based terminal emulator.
flecs-lua - Lua script host for flecs
python-tcod - A high-performance Python port of libtcod. Includes the libtcodpy module for backwards compatibility with older projects.
Roguelike-Tutorial-2021 - Roguelike tutorial written hard with GDscript
bevy_webgl2 - WebGL2 renderer plugin for Bevy game engine
UnrealCLR - Unreal Engine .NET 6 integration