Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released

Re:Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation... by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:21PM (#31588312)

Cross-platform languages (and by extension -- engines and frameworks) rarely work exactly as advertised. The "just check a box" rarely holds true except for the simplest of programs.

In the old days, Java would advertise itself as being cross-platform (Write once, run anywhere!), but in practice, rarely worked that way.

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Re:Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation... by mst on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:20AM (#31592636)

The joke of that era was "Write once, debug everywhere!"

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Re:Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation... by pvg on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:38PM (#31588482)

There are some hugely successful Java games, oddly enough.

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Re:Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation... by Operyl on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:21AM (#31591313)

Even Minecraft, which is written in Java I’ll give you that, uses LWJGL which does have natives that behave in odd ways across platforms.

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Re:Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation... by reidjs on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:45PM (#31588560)

Minecraft being the obvious example

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Re:Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation... by branon on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @07:22PM (#31589407)

RuneScape <3

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