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Re: Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

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Post by nxpnsv » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 9:41 AM UTC

Razengan wrote: post #20

What’s the general stance on putting gifs for the Readme into the repository, potentially bloating its size?

In this case I’m all for it. There are 3 gifs, they are not huge while also clearly shows what the system is capable of. A general stance seems quite dogmatic, it depends on utility...

Re: Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

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Post by massung » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 3:26 PM UTC

larcrimacida wrote: post #16

massung wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need to download and install the CSFML libraries yourself. For audio you also need OpenAL and libsndfile. Links to all are in the README.

Thanks. I am currently stuck at this step. I did the raco pkg install csfml and apparently it was installed but i get the same error. Also I tried downloading the csfml bindings but don't know what to do with it as the instructions assume prior knowledge or are too cryptic to me. I'm giving up for now. Maybe I'll try again maybe not.

I've updated the README to point to a DEPENDENCIES.md file that details installation instructions of 3rd party libraries needed for each of the platforms. It needs some love for Linux, though, if anyone is up to the task.

Re: Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

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Post by actiondoes » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 6:26 PM UTC

jesseb wrote: post #19

actiondoes wrote: post #18

I love racket. Does anyone know of a Racket to Javascript compiler. Would love to be able to create Racket powered web games with this for educational purposes

I haven't used it (yet) but RacketScript is a thing https://github.com/vishesh/racketscript

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for

Re: Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

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Post by danbolt » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 11:13 PM UTC

danbolt wrote: post #8

Is anyone familiar with the stand-alone executable export[1] for Racket? I did a Ludum Dare and browsed a submission where a child had spent a lot of time and effort making a project in PyGame, but found it hard to distribute because he didn’t have the technical know how of converting it to something like a windows `.exe` file at the time. If this helps youngsters learn and explore programming the way the Commodore 6…

For anyone else reading this, I found the Ludum Dare submission and wanted to link it here:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid...

Re: Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

I pasted the 'Hello, World' code after installing dependencies. It worked. Then I pasted the breakout example at https://github.com/massung/r-cade/blob/master/examples/break... and ... nothing. Just seems to hang in the terminal without opening an r-cade window. How can I debug this?