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258 | 56 | |
4,341 | 2,774 | |
5.9% | - | |
9.6 | 7.8 | |
8 days ago | about 23 hours ago | |
C++ | Rust | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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love
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Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
I've built a few games with my son over the years. The fun part for us was all about fast iteration, and then laughing at the bugs together.
There are some other recommendations here for how to approach 3d, and he is specifically asking for 3d -- but I want to put in one more pitch for 2d: the fun-to-tedium ratio can be much higher.
I wonder if you could spend some time prototyping some of his ideas in LÖVE https://love2d.org/ -- if you show him the smallest sketch of something working, he might have an idea about what to add next.
Many years ago, on a flight, we went from 0 to game before we landed (with no experience).
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Show HN: A variant of Conway's Game of Life in color you can run on your phone
* When a cell is born it randomly takes on the color of one of its (3) parents.
To try it out:
1. Install LÖVE for your device from https://love2d.org (~5MB and open source). (iOS requires building from source on a Mac, or installing the third-party Love2D Studio: https://love2d-studio.marknoteapp.com)
2. Install my Lua Carousel from https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel (~100KB). It includes all its source code and can be edited live on a computer as it runs.
3. Copy the ~100 lines of code from the bottom of https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/651711/new-version-after-9-days and paste them into Lua Carousel.
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Gearing up for Lua
Probably the most important piece of software we'll be playing around with is a game engine called LÖVE. Lua is well known around developer circles as being a good scripting language when it comes to making games, and this engine is one of the more popular. I'll be going through installation at the end of this post.
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Original Sling'n'shoot Worms Game
I got it – these are the steps I took:
1. Download Love from https://love2d.org/
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Can't make my mind about which engine to use
libGDX is great, but I can understand if it's not for some people. This also applies to love2d, raylib and Monogame
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How Do I Compile/Install Love 0.10.2 on Linux?
You don't need to use git if you don't want to. Try downloading the 0.10.2 source directly here (the file you want is love-0.10.2-linux-src.tar.gz); I see you've tried this already but try again just to see what happens. Extract it to a directory (e.g. love-0.10.2-linux-src) and then run:
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Not only Unity...
Love2d (MIT/C++/Lua) https://github.com/love2d/love
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Ask HN: Released games built on FOSS engines?
- Löve (doesn't have a separate page, but showcases a few games at the bottom of the page): https://love2d.org
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How to have the coolest booth at a tech conference 🕹👾
The game, Wasp Escape, was built using the open-source Löve 2D game library for Lua.
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I want to make a game but I'm scared...
love2d (lua) is a productive, fun, good docs, and most importantly proven / field-tested 2d game library, with easy to learn fast to compile and fast to run language - lua. while lua might not have a lot of features as python, the big bonus is that its much more focused language, which is important because otherwise you can get easily distracted on bells and whistles that other programming languages provide, i know that from experience
macroquad
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Deploying your Rust WASM Game to Web with Shuttle & Axum
See the macroquad docs for full details on building a WASM game.
- Not only Unity...
- Macroquad: Cross-platform game engine in Rust
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What would you recommend for simple 2D game (in The Binding of Isaac style)?
Any opinion on ggez? I don't like how everything in macroquad is global state https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/issues/333
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Help with egui basics?
I prefer examples like the ones in Macroquad: https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/tree/master/examples. I'm not against advanced examples, but the priority should be extremely clear, minimal, self contained ones.
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HELP: Unique ID's starting at 0 for each Type, advancing by one.
There were even discussions about deprecating static mut. Even if you think you got it right, there are too many things that might go wrong, like aliasing. For example, macroquad needs a complete rewrite because of their static mut.
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Learning project - board game Yinsh using macroquad
It's based on macroquad and you can play the wasm version here: https://unvirtual.github.io/yinsh-rs/
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I love rust, I have a pet peeve with the community
The reality is that I have used unsafe that is also unsound out of convenience because fixing it is a papercut too many. And this tends to be common! I know enough to spot unsoundness in other projects (sometimes even early). But not enough to be confident in my own abilities to write sound unsafe code. Why? Because it's really flipping hard, that's why!
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Limitations of wasm for a small board game?
Given that you are making a game, you might want to consider using a game framework such as https://github.com/not-fl3/macroquad/.Macroquad has full support for WASM, and will allow you to render your game both locally and in the browser via WASM depending on how you compile it.
What are some alternatives?
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
miniquad - Cross platform rendering in Rust
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
ggez - Rust library to create a Good Game Easily
Godot Card Game Framework - A framework which comes with prepared scenes and classes to kickstart your card game, as well as a powerful scripting engine to use to provide full rules enforcement.
pixels - A tiny hardware-accelerated pixel frame buffer. 🦀
TIC-80 - TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
gdnative - Rust bindings for Godot 3