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Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by swirlycheetah »

coolsunglasses wrote: post #108
swirlycheetah wrote: post #107

Each time there's a Ludum Dare or someone prolific livestreams themselves coding (usually Notch) I get all excited and want to do the same but I can never find a website or platform which really caters to coders. Am I alone in this? Is there somewhere? Is there actually any demand for this? Either way, I've created a quick landing page to see if anyone would actually be interested in a live streaming site specificall…

Signed up. Please make it work on Linux (I use xmonad on Ubuntu).

Thanks! Will certainly add this to the list. Out of interest what's support for live streaming like currently for you?

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by photex »

smrtinsert wrote: post #40
eamsen wrote: post #18

Watching Notch hacking on the Ludum Dare competition is such a comforting experience - to me he is the Bob Ross of game development. He also seems to end up developing the same thing over and over again with different shades of green on the leaves. Even though you may don't like his style, you have to admire his pragmatism, productivity and humbleness.

That's so dismissive, Bob Ross was the running ironic joke of the painting world.

Bob Ross was a national treasure who dedicated his life to helping others see that it is wonderful to make or create for the sake of it.

Anyone I've met who thinks he's a joke have been illustrators who hadn't yet come to terms with the reality that they were craftspeople and not fine-artists. As if there is some dishonor for being a dedicated and skilled craftsperson. Having a passion for and love for a craft at any skill level is a beautiful thing.

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by discreteevent »

zubspace wrote: post #100
tosh wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My takeaway is this: Doing something quick and dirty for a first draft and improve it later on often leads to better results in the long run than planing and over-engineering a solution beforehand, because you can start refining details much earlier or throw away bad approaches without investing too much time. I like Dart because it supports what you've described really really well. Optional type annotations enable…

I agree, Dart offers alot regarding prototyping. Maybe I'm thinking too much, but I believe native os and mobile targets are simply too important in the gaming industry and therefore it's difficult to leverage the device capabilities if your primary target is the web & webgl. I guess, what I miss most is cross compilation, which would be totally awesome. But Dart moves slowly and I'm very hesitant to invest in a plat…

The dart people seem to be focussed on getting it to generate code that is at fast as handwritten JavaScript. If they get there then you won't have to worry about a dart VM in a browser (won't happen in a non Google browser anyway). You still have really rapid development and rich debugging with the dartium browser (like notch) and you can use a dart VM on the server for faster than js performance.

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by jebblue »

tosh wrote: post #26

For me personally it is interesting to see that Notch seems to prefer Dart Editor (Built on the Eclipse platform) over something like Intellij IDEA or Webstorm ( https://www.dartlang.org/tools/webstorm/ ).

Eclipse is a wonderful development platform which is why it's used by millions of developers worldwide.

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by hansyschmitt »

swirlycheetah wrote: post #107

Each time there's a Ludum Dare or someone prolific livestreams themselves coding (usually Notch) I get all excited and want to do the same but I can never find a website or platform which really caters to coders. Am I alone in this? Is there somewhere? Is there actually any demand for this? Either way, I've created a quick landing page to see if anyone would actually be interested in a live streaming site specificall…

Hi, I'm also working on a plataform with focus on streaming live-coding. I would love to talk with you about how to tackle that space. You can contact me at schmitt.hansy at gmail.com.

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by chops »

Notch's Ludum Dare video for Metagun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-AFnCkRLY) was inspiration for a series of scripts I now use for clients and my own entertainment purposes (for some loose definition of "entertainment").

It's a series of shell scripts I use that screencap videos of coding and set them to music (so, for example, rendering a 48-hour coding competition to a 5-minute song, or as I more typically do for clients, render the development process down to a few minutes for them to watch in fast-time how their development was done).

It's called watchmecode (https://github.com/choptastic/watchmecode) and I just have to do

  ./make-av-video.sh /path/to/video.mpg /path/to/song.mp3
And it does the rest, and outputs it to "done.mp4"

The result is something that looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwn7mfmo0SQ

(disclaimer, I've plugged this before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5685859)

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by brl »

swirlycheetah wrote: post #107

Each time there's a Ludum Dare or someone prolific livestreams themselves coding (usually Notch) I get all excited and want to do the same but I can never find a website or platform which really caters to coders. Am I alone in this? Is there somewhere? Is there actually any demand for this? Either way, I've created a quick landing page to see if anyone would actually be interested in a live streaming site specificall…

I would love for this to exist. I've thought about streaming on twitch before but it is apparently against their ToS to stream anything which isn't video games.

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by swah »

icoder wrote: post #77
swah wrote: post #48

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By the powerful sound of the keystroke when moving words, I'd say he is using Ctrl+ . That is very common in Windows. BTW I'm not able to switch between OSX and Windows (home & work) efficiently - Windows' shortcuts are so much easier on my hands. Is there any way people make the two OSes more similar?

I come from windows and now use a Mac (iOS dev). I was so used to all windows shortcuts (shift+ctrl+keyright to select a word, ctrl+c to copy, etc), I know what you mean! I use KeyRemap4MacBook, which kicks in as soon as I connect my hardware windows keyboard to it (which is basically always when I sit down to code). It has a lot of default windows compatibility settings, but you can customize at will. I added a few…

Thanks for this. If I can map C-v, C-c, C-t, C-w, Shift-home, Shift-end... I should capture a good portion of my misses :)

Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart

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Post by enneff »

laxatives wrote: post #73
gnarbarian wrote: post #50

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The analogy is apt. Notch isn't known for being a stellar programmer.

I'd rather be a successful programmer than a stellar one (probably).

While he is no doubt a programmer it is his superb game design skills that brought him to success.
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