Making games in Go for absolute beginners
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Making games in Go for absolute beginners
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Re: Making games in Go for absolute beginners
#2Based on ebitengine.
To fix: a hanging sentence "Here’s how an example Sprite component can look like"
Re: Making games in Go for absolute beginners
#3Based on ebitengine. To fix: a hanging sentence "Here’s how an example Sprite component can look like"
Oops, that was a leftover! Thank you :)
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#5I've been working on a game over the past year in Go using https://github.com/g3n/engine. I picked Go because I like the language and wanted to learn it. I picked g3n-engine because I wanted to work in 3d after making a few 2d games in the past.
Making games is so much more challenging and rewarding than almost all of the work I've done for pay. There's always so much more to learn that doesn't feel like just relearning how to do the same thing except with a different framework of the week.
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#6Doing a game with ebitengine myself. Refreshingly nice experience.
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#7Great tutorial. I really enjoyed it and saved it for later.
Re: Making games in Go for absolute beginners
#8I always wondered if Go would be a good language to make a game in due to its concept of goroutines. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot.
Re: Making games in Go for absolute beginners
#9I always wondered if Go would be a good language to make a game in due to its concept of goroutines. Maybe one of these days I’ll give it a shot.
Unfortunately, garbage-collected languages have historically not been great for real-time action games. Throughput and performance can be excellent, but without control over the garbage collector pauses can wreck the experience.
For any game that doesn't require smooth frames for the experience, the best language is the one you're most comfortable with (modulo some base level of game dev community)
Edit: on the other hand, Go is a superb candidate for a back-end game server. I'd say the same goes for the network client layer, but the language interop story is not ideal.
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#10While ebiten is fun, it absolutely will be limiting for your larger project.
Consider options and research properly before choosing tech.
In the case of ebiten + golang, you will suffer greatly from the FFI overhead when calling external graphics API:s.