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davidslv
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About davidslv
I build things from scratch to actually understand them: a roguelike in pure Ruby — no engine, just a terminal and an entity-component-system — and a modular-monolith Rails reference app where the boundaries are real.
The two architecture books I've written came out of that work, not the other way around.
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Interesting read, but I keep finding that these are well intended but rarely the solution. On your words: "Bad requirements produce bad code reliably." This is a different problem …
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Author here. This started as a hobby attempt to understand Codemasters' old driving AI, which had received quite a few interesting game reviews at the time. Which meant first readi…
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Comment #45981459
I spent 5 years building a roguelike game in pure Ruby (no game engines) to explore Entity-Component-System architecture and event-driven patterns outside of typical Rails applicat…
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Show HN: Vanilla Roguelike – My 5-Year Solo Ruby Project Now OSS
After 5 years of solo development, I'm opening up Vanilla Roguelike, a turn-based roguelike written in pure Ruby. I belive it demonstrates Ruby's strengths in game dev, with proced…
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Comment #33257952
I've been working on writing a roguelike game in ruby, without using any external libraries. It's not really a complete game at this stage, all you can do is travel through the ran…
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Comment #9549535
I just read the article, I don't know much about the subject, but I find myself feeling really good about someone honouring the contract, even more a verbal one, I wish more people…
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Comment #9538891
I totally agree with you, the website is really slow, most likely because it ended here...
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Comment #9538864
is only me having a slow experience? The concept is actually very interesting, it really makes it very easy to build websites for small businesses.
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Comment #9538167
Wow, I've never see that one, it just makes me feel like playing it right now :D
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Comment #9465799
amazing work, I always dreamt about having a world map in one of my future house walls, thanks for sharing, I will definitely come back to your article at some point.
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Comment #9393274
That's why I'm asking to people who care, because I'm not getting the picture.
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Comment #9392876
What's the big deal? Why do you care about those documents so much? They all seem really meaningless, but maybe I'm missing the point... someone enlighten me?
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Comment #9224596
how about someone take the place and don't let this die ?