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/u/jaredly, thanks for posting, this is really exciting! I've been reading about Reason here and there, and I've always wanted to write a simple game. At the a

/u/jaredly, thanks for posting, this is really exciting! I've been reading about Reason here and there, and I've always wanted to write a simple game. At the app/game level, is there any platform-specific code? Or is it all in src? And to clarify, the big news here is cutting down on the yak-shaving with the cross-compilers and build systems right? Does it enforce any conventions on the code? Did you use any frameworks to create the game itself?

chenglou 9y ago
I'll reply for Jared since he doesn't seem around. I work on Reason. It's a single codebase and build system. There's platform-specific code buried in some conditional compilation in the Reprocessing drawing lib he uses: https://github.com/Schmavery/reprocessing https://github.com/Schmavery/reprocessing Here's a livestream of the Reprocessing folks making a flappy bird clone (https://github.com/schmavery/flappybird https://github.com/schmavery/flappybird) from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aD3aPvNpyQ&feature=youtu.be&t=6m47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aD3aPvNpyQ&feature=youtu.be...
jaredly 9y ago
In the game, the only place I check the platform is to see how big I should make the screen (like 3 lines). Everything else is shared! The big news here is that you can use a single codebase (and a nice advanced language like ocaml), and deploy to 4 platforms. The framework I'm using is called "reprocessing", which is a ~port of the "processing" language to OCaml, targetting OpenGL. It abstracts out the different platforms.
- k__ 9y ago
  I guess the Linux port wouldn't be a big thing, but what about Windows?
  - drdiablo 9y ago
    We are actively working on it. Linux's well on its way and is much easier than windows. We're open to PRs ;) We consolidated web and native desktop in one repo https://github.com/bsansouci/reasongl https://github.com/bsansouci/reasongl. iOS and android are still out because we're still figuring how everything should fit together to be useful.

chenglou 9y ago

I'll reply for Jared since he doesn't seem around. I work on Reason. It's a single codebase and build system. There's platform-specific code buried in some conditional compilation in the Reprocessing drawing lib he uses: https://github.com/Schmavery/reprocessing https://github.com/Schmavery/reprocessing Here's a livestream of the Reprocessing folks making a flappy bird clone (https://github.com/schmavery/flappybird https://github.com/schmavery/flappybird) from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aD3aPvNpyQ&feature=youtu.be&t=6m47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aD3aPvNpyQ&feature=youtu.be...

jaredly 9y ago

In the game, the only place I check the platform is to see how big I should make the screen (like 3 lines). Everything else is shared! The big news here is that you can use a single codebase (and a nice advanced language like ocaml), and deploy to 4 platforms. The framework I'm using is called "reprocessing", which is a ~port of the "processing" language to OCaml, targetting OpenGL. It abstracts out the different platforms.

k__ 9y ago
I guess the Linux port wouldn't be a big thing, but what about Windows?
- drdiablo 9y ago
  We are actively working on it. Linux's well on its way and is much easier than windows. We're open to PRs ;) We consolidated web and native desktop in one repo https://github.com/bsansouci/reasongl https://github.com/bsansouci/reasongl. iOS and android are still out because we're still figuring how everything should fit together to be useful.