Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
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Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
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Re: Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
#2Thanks, this was a great read.
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#3> Many Web games were created with Impact [the game engine from the article] and it even served as the basis for some commercial cross-platform titles like Cross Code, Eliot Quest and my own Nintendo Wii-U game XType Plus.
Cross Code is an excellent game. I knew that it used web tech and I was constantly amazed by how performant it was on the Nintendo Switch hardware. I would guess that this engine deserves some credit there!
Re: Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
#4> for No Reason
Out of respect for your player's battery life, perhaps :)
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#5Nice writeup! I didn’t see mention of the license: it’s MIT and the code is on GitHub.
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#6Somewhat related. Your QOI lossless file format coupled with 7Zip outperfoms lossless PNG. Amazing work!
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#7As one of those 3000 licence holders, I'm happy to see a revival of Impact :) wonder how nicely it plays with Zig.
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#8Had to log in to my rarely-used HN account to mention that I had played Biolab Disaster over and over again years back but lost track of it and forgot the name. Kinda wild to find it again by sheer luck!
Re: Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
#9now rewrite it back to JS with https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS
j/k :D
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#10> Many Web games were created with Impact [the game engine from the article] and it even served as the basis for some commercial cross-platform titles like Cross Code, Eliot Quest and my own Nintendo Wii-U game XType Plus. Cross Code is an excellent game. I knew that it used web tech and I was constantly amazed by how performant it was on the Nintendo Switch hardware. I would guess that this engine deserves some cred…
To be fair, they modified Impact _a lot_. In some of their development streams[1] you can see a heavily extended Weltmeister (Impact's level editor).
Imho, that's fantastic! I love to see devs being able to adapt the engine for their particular game. Likewise, high_impact shouldn't be seen as a “feature-complete” game engine, but rather as a convenient starting point.