Luke

This is where I got to. Next up was implementing some FOV functionality to increase the feeling of isolation and being lost.

I also looked up better dungeon generation algorithms, and that sounded super fun to tackle too.

But we will detour slightly, and re-implement first...

I probably won't bring the engine as it is with the re-impl, as the patterns favor OO languages, which I'm not going with, but at least I know what things to abstract out that I'm likely to re-use at this point.

Like 8 years ago as a proof-of-concept, I wrote a game engine for 2D text-based games in Perl, off the back of reading Game Programming Patterns. I used that engine to write a basic implementation of Pong, and a barebones roguelike.

A couple of weeks ago, for reasons I cannot remember, I picked up that code again and started building out the roguelike… and I’m really enjoying it!

But now I think I want to port all of it away from Perl to something else. It’s only ever gonna be a game for me. But I’d love to be able to play it in a browser, and Perl doesn’t really have a good story there AFAICT.

And I like the idea of participating in a game jam for shits and giggles.

So maybe ClojureScript? Or I came across let-go the other day, and it can compile to wasm, and also as a static binary? I guess I’m just looking at Clojure-y options…