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by japhib 5y ago
Not worth the read. The author just brags about their experience a bit, dumps on Lisp a bit, and praises Go a bit, without actually providing any interesting or new information. There's a _small_ metaphor about Clojure being Japanese.
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by japhib 5y ago
Why? It’d be pretty simple to make a clone of, honestly, just SDL2 with some Lua bindings and some neat tools. The special part about it isn’t the code. It’s the concept of it, the execution, and the community that has grown up around it.
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by japhib 5y ago
Pico8 has remixing too. You can view the code for any cart, and then download it, change the code/art/sounds a bit, and reupload it. There’s a super active Celeste Classic modding scene in pico8 for this reason.
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by japhib 5y ago
This book is incredible. Super well-written and informative on a previously opaque topic, with information delivered in a conversational, approachable way. And the fact that it has _so much_ content crammed in, AND is offered for free on th
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by japhib 5y ago
You jest (maybe?) but Zep, the guy that made the PICO-8, has announced something called the "Picotron" that is more from the 16 or 32-bit era: https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php
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by japhib 5y ago
> doesn't not mean it can't also allow for the growth of consumer tech I can't understand this sentence haha ... Too many "nots" > I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion of the author: that to grow
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by japhib 5y ago
The tech is less visible and more boring but I'm doubtful that this is true: > I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of value that's come out of e.g. space race The space race gave us a lot of tangible,
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by japhib 5y ago
1. What's funny about the photo at the top of this blog post is that it scales with the width of the window you're using to view it. That normally would seem like a bug but it actually works with this photo, to the point that I ca
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The Quest for the Ultimate Game Engine(janpaul.website)
2 points by japhib 5y ago|2 comments
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by japhib 5y ago
The funny thing about a lot of these cross platform Haxe GUI applications is that they are actually made with Electron. I guess using Haxe means that you could also share libraries with your “real” game code that likely compiles to C++, whi
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by japhib 5y ago
I actually really dislike this whole post. There’s a really condescending tone lurking just beneath the surface for most of it. It’s also extremely hand-wavy about the problems, their causes, AND possible solutions. Also, so whiny. At this
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by japhib 6y ago
When a person has a critical mass of accusations of sexual assaults, AND they are open about their support (or at least sympathy) for a well-known rapist and pedophile, the accusations start to become more and more plausible.