elf VS Celeste

> What do you develop with Arc usually?

I try to use Arc for as much as possible. We wrote our TPU monitoring software in it: http://tensorfork.com/tpus

Eventually I became frustrated with Racket's FFI. So I eventually made my own arclike language called elflang: https://github.com/elflang/elf

... which itself is a fork of Lumen (https://github.com/sctb/lumen) by Scott Bell.

The performance is good enough to run a minecraft-style game engine: https://i.imgur.com/iyr0YrB.png which was satisfying.

Nowadays I've been trying to implement Bel, mostly for the challenge of it than for any practical reason.

> I like how the "html" and "css" part was embedded in that "news.arc" file. Do you think that VIM script will highlight and lint the "css" part of an "arc" file?

Nope. https://i.imgur.com/o9aUG6j.png

But it has one very important feature: it can properly highlight atstrings: https://i.imgur.com/wO4f742.png

It's probably hard to tell, but the "@(hexrep border-color*)" would normally be highlighted as if it were a string. Arc has a feature called atstrings, where you can use @foo to reference the enclosing variable "foo". It can also call functions, e.g. "The value of 1 plus 2 is @(+ 1 2)" will become "The value of 1 plus 2 is 3".

Aha, found it! They opened sourced the C# version https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/tree/master/Source/PICO-8

forget TDD when you make a game, you want fast iteration time at all cost, gameplay is king, if you can't nail it fast enough, you'll make a bad game that is not fun

it's all about the feeling

Celeste's player class: https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/blob/master/Source/Player/...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/504230/Celeste/

check this out! both the readme and maddy's article that's linked towards the bottom, as well as the player.cs source code that is included. might be some decent resources

Keep in mind, the Celeste player controller is one single file of 5400+ lines of code.

So Celeste devs are shit at planning and have very poor code https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/blob/master/Source/Player/Player.cs

Celeste's source code is available in github :D https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste It's a LOT of code, but some stuff in there helped me out creating momentum mechanics for a project recently.

Look at Celeste's Player.cs. Incredible games can (and often do) ship with messy code. Also read the readme where they discuss how they both agree and disagrees with criticism their massive file's received (look up the thread in this sub for a lot of it).

They dropped the controller script for Celeste. 5400 lines of tuning and refining to get everything right. https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste

There's actually a README now, that does say it's probably messier than it should be and includes more cutscene logic than it should.