hawkthorne-journey VS ktx

Oh Man I haven't heard of this framework in years!

There was this amazing fan game made to mimic an episode of this tv show called Community. The show is about a group of community college students getting into all sorts of hijinks and one episode had all of them go into this video 8 bit video game world....so LÖVE was used to recreate the game exactly as you see in the show.

Unfortunately it is running on a very old version at this point and I hear due to how the framework has changed upgrading is not straightforward. It interesting to see how software changes and grows over time. Fortunately the last version released still seems to work fine on modern machines. (at least it runs on my M1 Mac)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzhuvOqfmC4

[2]: http://projecthawkthorne.com/

Glad you were able to work around it. Unfortunately this isn't the first time this has been reported: https://github.com/hawkthorne/hawkthorne-journey/issues/2551

Here y'all go https://projecthawkthorne.com/

Looks like the project has seen better days but here: https://github.com/hawkthorne/hawkthorne-journey

If anyone wants to play the game, you can find it at https://projecthawkthorne.com/

I don't think it's a reference, it's just a more videogame-ish sounding name: Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne. There's also a fan project of people building that game btw!

Journey To The Centre of Hawktorne

It’s free on PC https://projecthawkthorne.com/

I liked working with it (the library) but learned I hate working with Lua just slightly less than I hate working with JS. At least in JS we now have TS and things like Elm.

I ended up moving to https://github.com/libktx/ktx for that little project.

I highly, highly recommend using libKTX when using Kotlin with libGDX

Not sure if it's mentioned already but I'd strongly recommend LibKTX and Kotlin instead: https://libktx.github.io/

so kotlin is the preferred language for android development. It's fully interoperable with java and is usually touted as a better less boiler-platey java alternative. The language itself is very nice, with a lot of modern features and really nice syntax. It also has a really cool multiplatform system and a nice ecosystem for crossplatform libraries making it really nice for gamedev where you want to target all platforms. Some cool kotlin gamedev libs to check out if you're interested is https://korge.org/, https://littlekt.com/ and https://github.com/libktx/ktx (really nice kotlin bindings for working with libgdx which is a really mature crossplatform java game engine.

There is a Kotlin extension project for Libgdx, KTX. Its a good start as a beginner, there are lots of good tutorials for libgdx. Its good you limit your scope to top down games like Pokemon or Zelda.