{"author_name":"JohanAR","cat":"LD #23","comments":[],"epoch":1335031200,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"57569","p_author":"JohanAR","p_authorkey":"4989","p_urlkey":"93318","p_title":"Progress so far","p_cat":"LD #23","p_event":"LD23","p_time":"1335031200","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"4989","us_name":"JohanAR","us_username":"johanar","event_start":"1334880000","event_key":"10","event_name":"LD23"},"text":"

My initial plan was to have my game running in a web browser, to make it easy for people to play and rate it. Problem is that I’m not too fond of Adobe\/Flash (partially because they just canceled Linux support) or JavaScript. So I thought I’d try Haxe but it really lacked useful tutorials for JS\/HTML5 and I didn’t feel like learning a new language by reading the API.<\/p>\n

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As of writing this blog post the pie chart is missing 1 hour for “Trying to get Gimp 2.7.x installed” because the stable version (2.6) in Ubuntu repository doesn’t have single window mode.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, the language I settled for is Pike because it’s very high level, it’s compiled and it can do compile-time type checking. The downside is that it’s horribly under-documented. At work<\/a> we say “the source is the documentation”, which unfortunately isn’t as much of a joke as you’d like it to be.<\/p>\n

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Right, back to coding stuff. I think I have 20 lines so far..<\/p>\n \n

Tags: haXe<\/a>, Pike<\/a>, progress<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 21st, 2012 1:00 pm","title":"Progress so far"}