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Sure: https://github.com/dobin/nkeyrollover https://github.com/dobin/nkeyrollover. You can play it with "telnet exploit.courses". It will crash a lot. Stole som

by dobin 5y ago

Sure: https://github.com/dobin/nkeyrollover https://github.com/dobin/nkeyrollover. You can play it with "telnet exploit.courses". It will crash a lot. Stole some animations from "Stone Story" (Steam)

edf13 5y ago
That is very very cool
- dobin 5y ago
  Thanks. Still, abandoned it like the author mentioned after nearly getting the MVP to work. All which is left to do is fixing all the bugs, implementing all the skills, animations, enemies and bosses with choreographed attacks, and designing a lot of maps, add a story... (at least there is no music or sound effects). And of course, what often gets forgotten: Make sure it is fun, somehow. In my opinion, nobody can "make" a good game. Can just pump out a lot of games, and hope one is good. Be it EA, or King Digital Entertainment.
allenu 5y ago
This is great! Thanks for sharing. I'm going to share it with some friends. I once had a goal of working on a beat 'em up engine for fun. I wrote one version on Mac and then later thought to write it in javascript. Like many other projects I've done, I got it to a working state and moved on. :) Take a look here if you're curious: https://www.ussherpress.com/yokosukajs/ https://www.ussherpress.com/yokosukajs/ It's not "true" game development, i.e. using modern 3d engines, but it did cover the core issues to think about, and I was learning to write more fp-like code at the time, so it helped me learn functional programming a bit. So, to echo other people's comments, there are transferable skills in game dev.
- dobin 5y ago
  Hehe, i like it! Except that changing direction quickly left/right feels kinda bad. Seems you wait for the animation to finish before checking for new key presses, not buffering the last pressed key.
  - allenu 5y ago
    Yup, good callout. There's definitely tweaks I could make to get a better "feel". For some background, I have a state machine for the animations and I've set up some to be interruptible starting on certain animations, and in this case, I the "turn around" animation has to play out completely before I allow new directions from the "director". (I call the characters on the screen "actors" and the source of directions "directors", which can be a human or AI.) Anyway, the fun was in coming up with the engine, of course. :)

by dobin 5y ago

Sure: https://github.com/dobin/nkeyrollover https://github.com/dobin/nkeyrollover. You can play it with "telnet exploit.courses". It will crash a lot. Stole some animations from "Stone Story" (Steam)

edf13 5y ago

That is very very cool

dobin 5y ago
Thanks. Still, abandoned it like the author mentioned after nearly getting the MVP to work. All which is left to do is fixing all the bugs, implementing all the skills, animations, enemies and bosses with choreographed attacks, and designing a lot of maps, add a story... (at least there is no music or sound effects). And of course, what often gets forgotten: Make sure it is fun, somehow. In my opinion, nobody can "make" a good game. Can just pump out a lot of games, and hope one is good. Be it EA, or King Digital Entertainment.

allenu 5y ago

This is great! Thanks for sharing. I'm going to share it with some friends. I once had a goal of working on a beat 'em up engine for fun. I wrote one version on Mac and then later thought to write it in javascript. Like many other projects I've done, I got it to a working state and moved on. :) Take a look here if you're curious: https://www.ussherpress.com/yokosukajs/ https://www.ussherpress.com/yokosukajs/ It's not "true" game development, i.e. using modern 3d engines, but it did cover the core issues to think about, and I was learning to write more fp-like code at the time, so it helped me learn functional programming a bit. So, to echo other people's comments, there are transferable skills in game dev.

dobin 5y ago
Hehe, i like it! Except that changing direction quickly left/right feels kinda bad. Seems you wait for the animation to finish before checking for new key presses, not buffering the last pressed key.
- allenu 5y ago
  Yup, good callout. There's definitely tweaks I could make to get a better "feel". For some background, I have a state machine for the animations and I've set up some to be interruptible starting on certain animations, and in this case, I the "turn around" animation has to play out completely before I allow new directions from the "director". (I call the characters on the screen "actors" and the source of directions "directors", which can be a human or AI.) Anyway, the fun was in coming up with the engine, of course. :)