Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Nov 16, 2023

curious about something. wanna see how big the #GameDev community on mastodon is. are you a game developer? plz boost for reach

EDIT: i cannot prescribe that anyone is a gamedev or in what capacity. if you don't self identify as a gamedev, vote no, if you self identify as a professional gamedev even if you're doing it alongside a dayjob, pick the professional category. there are no wrong answers

Nope
45.7%
Yes, professional
16.9%
Yes, hobbyist
28.1%
Yes, former/retired
4.3%
Something else
5.1%
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Show threadKlara ❤️Nov 16, 2023
@eniko I have always loved creating games, but never made more than a tech demo at most, and game-related code is probably sub-1% of the code I've ever written. My final project of high school was examining REPL-driven development of a physics engine using #Guile and a game toolkit called #chickadee for display and input. That was a fun project and I'd really love to dive deeper and actually make a game from what I've learned.
Show threaddaveNov 16, 2023
@boo_ @eniko wow you used chickadee for a high school project!? that is so cool!
Show threadKlara ❤️Nov 16, 2023

@dthompson @eniko Yes! I really wanted to make a project in Lisp, but really only knew Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp at the time. I started with Common Lisp but quickly found the FFI interface of many implementations to be very hard to use, and I wanted the project to be easily rebuildable, which led me to Guile and Guix as means of distributing the environment in a reproducible way, and is a large part as to why I use and love them both so much today. 

Chickadee is an awesome package, and I hope I can get some time next semester to catch the next lisp game jam! 

Show threaddave
@boo_ @eniko it would be great to see you join the next jam! excited to see what you build, jam or otherwise.
Nov 16, 2023 at 5:44pmWeb