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roca
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Roku publishes IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku
> Enthusiasts had to create an interpreter for it (https://github.com/sjbarag/brs) to speed up development time.
Author of that interpreter here - didn't expect to wake up to that repo appearing in a top HN comment! That started as a side project and was maintained during spare work hours (thanks, Hulu!) for the past 3 years, along with a unit testing framework that runs in it (https://github.com/hulu/roca).
I'm happy to answer any "developing for Roku" questions that come up :)
Prince-of-Persia-Roku
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Prince of Persia JavaScript
This was also ported to Roku, and is the best game I've played on Roku
(remember when Roku was going to be a Wii competitor, with the fancy motion remote?)
https://github.com/lvcabral/Prince-of-Persia-Roku
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Roku publishes IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku
It's amazing to me that Roku has the plurality of the US streaming market (37%), yet its development ecosystem is so terrible. For those who don't know:
1. The only public development API requires the use of their proprietary language BrightScript which is poorly documented, and for which no official compiler, interpreter, or runtime environment is available. Enthusiasts had to create an interpreter for it (https://github.com/sjbarag/brs) to speed up development time. Previously you had to push your app to a Roku to run it before you could learn of any syntax errors.
2. They do have a C/C++ API, but they limit access to big orgs and require an NDA to use it.
There are plenty of cool projects, like a Prince of Persia port (https://github.com/lvcabral/Prince-of-Persia-Roku).
That they are finally shoring up their poor developer ecosystem with C/C++ and JavaScript APIs is great, but it's unfortunate that they aren't allowing these apps to be distributed through their official store.
What are some alternatives?
brs - An interpreter for the BrightScript language that runs on non-Roku platforms.
SDLPoP - An open-source port of Prince of Persia, based on the disassembly of the DOS version.
PrinceJS - Prince of Persia reimplementation written in HTML5/Javascript
PrinceJS - Prince of Persia reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript
OpenTTD - OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]