amirrajan
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Comment · 2 months ago
Link to source code: https://gist.github.com/amirrajan/5ec37929e9987a72d98d5adb50...
Comment · 1 year ago
More poignant examples would be `dirent.h` and `system`. Getting access to the file system on a console, or the ability to start up a process out of band is not allowed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Late reply, but maybe it’ll be useful to other people coming across this post.
1. mRuby is trivial to embed.
2. S7 Scheme is also trivial to embed.
3. LuaJIT will not work on consoles (proprietary CPU architectures), and JIT isn’t supported on iOS or Android. You have to use vanilla Lua.
4. Lua has historically been the default because it was first to provide a nice embed story.
5. Lua as a language leaves a lot to be desired (Ron Gilbert really disliked using it within his games)
6. This gist post goes into details wrt the deficiencies of Lua [1]
7. Here are two GH repos with Roguelike Tutorial. One in Lua [2], the other in mRuby [3]. It’s worth comparing and contrasting.
8. If I want extremely performant code, then I drop down to C. For scripting level/game code. mRuby is plenty fast [4].
[1] https://gist.github.com/amirrajan/2c42315ffef311600ecb2d8dcf...
[2] https://github.com/Lycea/Rogue/tree/master/components
[3] https://github.com/kfischer-okarin/roguelike-tutorial-2021/t...
Comment · 2 years ago
Creator of DragonRuby here. Send me an email and I’ll hook you up with a license to the game engine :-)
at[at]amirrajan[dot]net
Comment · 5 years ago
Additional Links:
- Starfield Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-baJwEjUsk&ab_channel=AmirR...
- Starfield Source: https://gist.github.com/amirrajan/508f1a6aaf5352cab579104e61...
- Skybox/Coordinate System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvlRg3GvcLY&ab_channel=AmirR...
Comment · 5 years ago
I’m not sure how to respond frankly. You claimed my statements were ignorant. So in response, I provided a source that I agree with wholeheartedly. And a HN comment thread that provides even more criticisms.
I mean, I can add to what’s already been stated. But I’m not sure it’ll really help further the conversation. Especially when it’s being dismissed as “not nearly as bad”. So... yea.
Comment · 5 years ago
In the event that Godot becomes insolvent, the engine loses the ability to export to console. You must have a business entity to get access to those parts of the SDK. Losing the ability to go to console is a massive hit to the viability of the engine.
Comment · 5 years ago
From an apples to apples standpoint. What you're seeing in the video is DragonRuby Entities vs Unity GameObjects (with full functionality).
They look like particles yes, but the intent was to show the creation of fully featured constructs (not a demonstration of "fire and forget" particles).
Comment · 5 years ago
Decided to do a flash sale given all the visibility the engine has gotten recently. You can get the Standard License free for the next 24 hours: https://itch.io/s/48411/dragonruby-game-toolkit-hacker-news-...
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