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I'm going to start a blog! And by "start a blog" I mean write a whole new blog engine entirely from the ground up...
by qingcharles 3y ago
I'm going to start a blog!
And by "start a blog" I mean write a whole new blog engine entirely from the ground up...
- ludston 3y agoI mean it only takes an afternoon if you're just making it for yourself.
- quirino 3y agoI've fallen into this trap so many times... Last time I decided to do the absolute minimum. I just glued together some Markdown library with Jinja for a total of ~50 lines of Python. Turns out you can do a lot with just that.
- cpursley 3y agoI bet you're a much better developer for going that route. So many lessons to learn with diy.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoYou can comparably do a lot by making your own engine, if you know what you're doing. Stardew Valley was written in XNA but other than that there's no engine. Lots of games written in monogame, SDL, SFML, PyGame, and other "frameworks". People also think that a 3D engine is absurdly hard but that's because they spend most of their time implementing PBR and a full featured level editor in their own custom UI framework. If you use off the shelf parts for things like physics, UI, and implement common file formats for levels then you can focus on the things you find interesting and still make a game. I'd wager there's a lot more unfished unity projects than unfinished game engine projects
- andai 3y agoMaybe not a great example, you can make a simple blog from scratch in like 20 lines of PHP/MySQL. I did this as a young teenager by copy-pasting some example code from Tizag's MySQL tutorial (which amazingly is still up, in its original condition![0]) (I wish I could share the original code, but I don't have it here.) [0] http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/ http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/