Luxe: free, cross platform, open source, rapid development game engine

Re:Luxe: free, cross platform, open source, rapid developmen... by danielbarla on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:11AM (#16616603)

Unrelated to Wren, but I felt that Bob's book "Game Programming Patterns" ([1] and a free web version [2]) was excellent, and a very down to earth treatment of the topic. All of the examples were relevant and pretty hard hitting.

I know patterns (especially "design patterns") have become a bit of a swear-word, something which hints at severe engineering malpractices, especially along the lines of introducing unnecessary complexity for seemingly its own sake. I think that view oversimplifies the topic greatly, so hopefully people don't dismiss it at face value.

[1] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ [2] http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html

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Re:Luxe: free, cross platform, open source, rapid developmen... by _discovery on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:19AM (#16616625)

GPP was great. Plus, Bob's new book is about writing interpreters!

http://craftinginterpreters.com/

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Re:Luxe: free, cross platform, open source, rapid developmen... by danielbarla on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:38AM (#16616684)

Ah cool, thanks for the link.

It sounds like it may actually come in handy - I've ended up creating a number of solutions which came pretty close to being fully fledged domain specific languages. Sadly, despite nominally passing a CS compilers course about 20 years ago, my implementations have been horrifically incorrect. Maybe it's time to refresh my memory of how to actually do this.

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Re:Luxe: free, cross platform, open source, rapid developmen... by _discovery on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:48AM (#16616711)

oh nice, yea it's coming along (the book is not complete yet, like before, it's written and each chapter put up when complete). There's a github repo as well.

I'd say it's worth the fun of writing your own alongside or after!

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