Bitty Engine: An itty bitty game engine
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Bitty Engine: An itty bitty game engine
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#2That Lua debugger/editor with ImGui looks awesome! I’ve been wanting to do a similar project since Lua makes the API for creating breakpoints and stuff pretty easy. Styling ImGui to look like a normal code editor must have been no easy task though.
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#3I love these projects so much. It must be exhilarating to work on them and I'm very tempted to work on one myself as a side project/self learning experience.
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#4I love these projects so much. It must be exhilarating to work on them and I'm very tempted to work on one myself as a side project/self learning experience.
There's hundreds or thousands of these indie game engines because, yes!, it is a lot of fun to write them. You'd learn a lot. The #1 tip though is that you're writing a game, or an engine, not both. So commit to doing one of those tasks. Usually you end up with a bunch of toy games and no steam left to want to really polish them into something complete.
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#5I love these projects so much. It must be exhilarating to work on them and I'm very tempted to work on one myself as a side project/self learning experience.
There's hundreds or thousands of these indie game engines because, yes!, it is a lot of fun to write them. You'd learn a lot. The #1 tip though is that you're writing a game, or an engine, not both. So commit to doing one of those tasks. Usually you end up with a bunch of toy games and no steam left to want to really polish them into something complete.
Do you know of any that use JavaScript/typescript?
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's hundreds or thousands of these indie game engines because, yes!, it is a lot of fun to write them. You'd learn a lot. The #1 tip though is that you're writing a game, or an engine, not both. So commit to doing one of those tasks. Usually you end up with a bunch of toy games and no steam left to want to really polish them into something complete.
Do you know of any that use JavaScript/typescript?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's hundreds or thousands of these indie game engines because, yes!, it is a lot of fun to write them. You'd learn a lot. The #1 tip though is that you're writing a game, or an engine, not both. So commit to doing one of those tasks. Usually you end up with a bunch of toy games and no steam left to want to really polish them into something complete.
Do you know of any that use JavaScript/typescript?
Here's the more popular dozen or so: https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines
If you want to know about the really small indie ones that are less for actual use and more for just "I want to make a game engine" I would check out the various gamedev Discord and Reddit channels. There's always people showing off their work.
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#8I was looking for this to surprise the missus with her own JRPG for her birthday. Thanks!
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#9I love these projects so much. It must be exhilarating to work on them and I'm very tempted to work on one myself as a side project/self learning experience.
Can confirm; they're real fun. I've got a 7-year side-project I still grind on in the form of a voxel engine. The trick is to start small and have realistic expectations. Your progress will be glacially slow at first, and that's okay. Eventually, if you keep grinding, you'll have something awesome that you love working on.
If you want to check out my project there's a link in my bio.
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#10I love these projects so much. It must be exhilarating to work on them and I'm very tempted to work on one myself as a side project/self learning experience.
Can confirm; they're real fun. I've got a 7-year side-project I still grind on in the form of a voxel engine. The trick is to start small and have realistic expectations. Your progress will be glacially slow at first, and that's okay. Eventually, if you keep grinding, you'll have something awesome that you love working on. If you want to check out my project there's a link in my bio.
Can confirm the first two years will suck if you’re starting from scratch. Keep with it. By the 4th year you’ll be able to use all your abstractions to whip up prototypes over the weekend.