14kb WASM game written in D

#1

Post by Shadonototra » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 12:36 PM UTC

14kb WASM game written in D
skoppe.github.io

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by adenozine » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

Wow, what an impressive game for the web browser, and in such a small size!

I'm particularly impressed by the variable lighting of the bullets down hallways, that's really quite masterful work.

Kudos!

Edit: I am impressed because I'm impressed. I spent a few weekends recently messing around with pygame, and I had a really hard time organizing my code and my thoughts. I do primarily numerical, technical work, and I see that there is something challenging about writing a game that I haven't come across much in 25+ years.

Feel free to shit on my comment, but I still think it's a very cool project, and seeing it run so smooth in a web browser, in a vm, on a beat up box with a Celeron was surreal to me.

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by code_checker4 » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

> A D port of a js13k competition game written by Dominic Szablewski. [0]

-- [0] - https://github.com/skoppe/spasm/tree/master/docs/examples/un...

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:22 PM UTC

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Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

#5

Post by jand » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:24 PM UTC

This uses webgl, right? Maybe feedback to the user in case of missing support would be useful.

Else folks get stuck at "Initializing..." with an exception in the console. Not everybody checks the console.

(TypeError: can't access property "createBuffer")

Edit: stuck at "Initiating..."

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by city41 » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:25 PM UTC

This is my first exposure to Spasm (a wasm web framework where apps are written in D) and my first impressions are quite positive.

https://github.com/skoppe/spasm

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by abhimanyu003 » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:28 PM UTC

This is really amazing work, super impressed with such a small size, gameplay mechanics, and how smooth it works. Bullet animations are super impressive.

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by newfie_bullet » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:37 PM UTC

jand wrote: post #5

This uses webgl, right? Maybe feedback to the user in case of missing support would be useful. Else folks get stuck at "Initializing..." with an exception in the console. Not everybody checks the console. (TypeError: can't access property "createBuffer") Edit: stuck at "Initiating..."

Yeah I first tried this in Safari and just had a black screen - edge/chrome worked just fine. Notice/pop-up would be helpful

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by teddyh » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:40 PM UTC

code_checker4 wrote: post #3

> A D port of a js13k competition game written by Dominic Szablewski. [0] -- [0] - https://github.com/skoppe/spasm/tree/master/docs/examples/un...

https://github.com/phoboslab/underrun

Re: 14kb WASM game written in D

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Post by edgls » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 1:42 PM UTC

Pretty impressive performance. It seems web assembly is pretty good tech for writing a performant web app. Is there any benchmark comparing web assembly vs javascript? I mean the same logic executed by javascript code vs the web assembly.

Also curious to know if there are any serious web apps developed using web assembly.