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Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally
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Joshua Branson |
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Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally |
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Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:21:11 -0400 |
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"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I've heard about chickadee! I've tried to install it before, but I
>>> haven't been successful yet. Perhaps I'll have to try again.
>>
>> What's the issue? Please post a backtrace.
>> I can chickadee flawlessly here, maybe I can help.
>
> I can also try to help. I should make a new release with all the
> latest code, maybe the experience will be better since some things
> were tweaked that were causing problems on certain computers. (There's
> API breakage, though, be warned!)
>
>> And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a
>> refreshing video game programming experience.
>
> That's good to hear! BTW, I am currently working on a small game
> engine built on top of Chickadee. My intent with Chickadee was to
> give people all of the building blocks to make games with Guile, but
> without strapping them to an opinionated engine. So, Starling is going
> to be one of those opinionated engines! The core abstractions are
> inspired by Godot and Python's Cocos2D which I used many years ago;
> it's 2D only for the time being; it uses GOOPS heavily (this may or
> may not sound good to you!); and it has a built-in developer mode that
> provides a REPL server, game loop error debugger, and live asset
> reloading (for images, sounds, all that non-code stuff). Stay tuned!
+1
>
> - Dave
- How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/25
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Amirouche Boubekki, 2018/08/25
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/26
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/29
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Amirouche Boubekki, 2018/08/29
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Joshua Branson, 2018/08/30
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Amirouche Boubekki, 2018/08/30
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2018/08/30
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/08/31
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Thompson, David, 2018/08/31
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2018/08/31
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/08/31
- Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally, Amirouche Boubekki, 2018/08/31