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Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no... by amalgamated_inc on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:49PM (#34342689)
When you write a game for Steam or similar services, do you have to make a specific binary format or follow certain conventions? Or could you basically do anything, in any language, even if it ships with a VM? Could I write a game in Erlang, for example, as long as I have SDL bindings?
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Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no... by Shinmera on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:54PM (#34342764)
All that steam requires is a native executable to launch, and that you load their steamworks library and initialise it, which should be one or two FFI calls.
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