Shinmera

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Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp, is now out(store.steampowered.com)
487 points by Shinmera 4y ago|127 comments
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by Shinmera 4y ago
Yeah I don't know what they use either, but so far repacking that atlas has not been frequent enough that writing my own packer would save time.
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by Shinmera 4y ago
Thanks! Yeah, marketing is definitely a weak point, in large part because it's just something that goes very much against my character. I've tried posting to reddit before, but most communities' strict posting rules about pro
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by Shinmera 4y ago
I'm sure Aseprite could be further optimised to press down the constant factor, but it is performing a rect packing algorithm among other things, which is an NP-hard problem.
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by Shinmera 4y ago
By being lucky enough to have savings, and having a room at my parents' house that doesn't require any rent payments. Without those, it definitely wouldn't have been possible. Recently I've also received some grants, nam
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by Shinmera 4y ago
Heya, I'm the author of the article. I've been working on Kandria full time for close to two years now, and on-and-off for some years while I was doing my Master's at ETH. The engine it's running on, Trial, is a few year
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by Shinmera 4y ago
Psst: it has been possible in the existing demos already, if you know what to tweak ;) Kandria's source code will also be open under a license that permits modding. Keep an eye out for the upcoming Kickstarter in June for more info on
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by Shinmera 9y ago
That's on purpose, and required, for a variety of reasons. First would be that it cannot be put together into a single executable as it is composed of multiple, separate components, that each rely on a specific structure of the file sy
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by Shinmera 9y ago
If you open up an issue we could look into what's required. From what I can tell it shouldn't need much work, just an additional file that configures defaults similar to https://github.com/portacle/emacsd&#x2F
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by Shinmera 9y ago
I don't know what Spacemacs does exactly or how it differs from classic Emacs, so I can't really estimate the amount of work required to get it integrated. I assume it would be non-trivial, however, just based on the experience I&
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by Shinmera 9y ago
It should not touch anything outside of its own directory. If it does, then that's a bug and needs to be fixed.
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by Shinmera 9y ago
The help buffer includes its own tutorial that is geared towards the essential parts of Emacs and Lisp editing. I feel like Emacs' own tutorial only distracts from what this package was meant to be focused on.
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by Shinmera 9y ago
Given that packaging things in a self-contained manner is pretty much all this project does, I'm a bit confused about your comment. Could you elaborate?
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by Shinmera 9y ago
You should be able to easily install it by putting `(ensure-installed 'evil)` (and evil setup parts) into the user config file, or using Emacs' package-list, which is explained in the help buffer.