Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang

Hey HN, this is a small project myself and closer friends have been building on our free time (https://github.com/Dr-Nekoma/lyceum), it finally reached 0.1.0, we are open to feedback!

The original idea was to experiment with Zig + Raylib, eventually we wrote a small server in Erlang as well. We started by first interacting with Erlang via its C bindings, but this eventually led to some of us to prototyping our own tooling to better integrate Zig types with Erlang, we called such tool "zerl" as its avaliable here https://github.com/dont-rely-on-nulls/zerl.

Most of the developers are NixOS users, so the tooling heavily relies on Nix as well, including a Postgres running our devshell as well.

Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang
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> the client written in Zig (superchanged with raylib and Zerl).

What does "supercharged" mean here? I'd guess raylib simply does all the rendering and input handling, what is it "supercharging" here?

It's just a superlative to give praise to the two libraries they are using to develop their game.

Pretty amazing effort, this looks like a great labour of love!

I can't give feedback on the code/technology, but on the writing on the lore section, I would try to simplify the writing. For instance the following:

> The reverberations of the trumpet stirred the knights from their deep repose, igniting a tumultuous awakening. With swords unsheathed and hearts ablaze, they clashed in a thunderous symphony of war, each seeking to claim dominance over the waking realm.

Feels too ornate (purple prose) and could be more directly put as:

> The trumpet’s call jolted the knights from their rest. Swords drawn and hearts alight, they clashed in a fierce battle, each striving for dominance.

I'm not an author or anything, but a little bit of copy writing could help - although this might just be me as it's probably a matter of personal taste!

This version is actually a walking simulator XD, us trying to pull the crazy tooling together until it just works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejYcWRERetM&t=2758s

Here's what the game consists rn