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SFML projects / SFML with JavaScript, Box2D...
« on: November 04, 2015, 01:40:32 pm »
I've been poking around GameMaker Studio, Construct 2 and Clickteam Fusion 2.5 and started wondering how hard it would be to make a 2d game engine.
My reason for doing this was all of the above engines are fine, but they get in the way a bit, as I'd rather write code than visually program. GameMaker is unique in that it has a script language. Fusion has JavaScript for plugins.
I looked briefly at SDL but chose to use SFML instead (classes not C functions). I bolted a Lua interpreter on at first, but after reading "why everyone should learn javascript" (http://blog.monitor.us/2014/08/why-everyone-should-learn-javascript/), I thought, why not?
I got hold of duktape, a JavaScript engine and swapped out Lua. Now Lua is fine, but JavaScript is better (IMHO) as it's more C/C++ like.
I added Box2d physics and created my first couple of demos: a simple block game (http://imgur.com/a/z7IrB) and a physics demo.
So where am I going with this? Am I trying to make a game? I'm interested in Match3 type games and procedural generation... so that's why I'm doing this.
Oh yeah, and writing code like this is fun.
My reason for doing this was all of the above engines are fine, but they get in the way a bit, as I'd rather write code than visually program. GameMaker is unique in that it has a script language. Fusion has JavaScript for plugins.
I looked briefly at SDL but chose to use SFML instead (classes not C functions). I bolted a Lua interpreter on at first, but after reading "why everyone should learn javascript" (http://blog.monitor.us/2014/08/why-everyone-should-learn-javascript/), I thought, why not?
I got hold of duktape, a JavaScript engine and swapped out Lua. Now Lua is fine, but JavaScript is better (IMHO) as it's more C/C++ like.
I added Box2d physics and created my first couple of demos: a simple block game (http://imgur.com/a/z7IrB) and a physics demo.
So where am I going with this? Am I trying to make a game? I'm interested in Match3 type games and procedural generation... so that's why I'm doing this.
Oh yeah, and writing code like this is fun.