SomeUnusualGames

I make games and sometimes tools with different funny programming languages.

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

Hey! I made a game in Bash with raylib! It's a "bullet hell" game featuring beloved penguin Tux vs an evil mutant Window!
Bash is a simple scripting language, so simple it doesn't have floating point variables/arithmetic! So how was this game possible? 👇

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

You can just do things, for example here I ran the same test game made with raylib on a PSP and PS3 emulators. It's really cool how they just work.
I happen to own a PS3 so I'll try to run it on real hardware :)
Huge thx to @psxdev for porting raylib to several consoles!!

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

Note that I don't use linux that much (yet), so I don't know much about how to use emacs 😅 But I kinda feel like is a bit easier to use than vim?
I hope I can fully transition to linux this year, will install it on an old laptop and see if I can use it as my daily pc...

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

Little weekend project: running raylib on emacs, as in, within emacs, with emacs lisp! It was fun, made wavy text :)

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

To make a dynamic module for emacs, you must declare a global var called "plugin_is_GPL_compatible", otherwise it refuses to compile.
You can use this simple trick to nullify the GPL license! This is the secret Richard Stallman doesn't want you to know!!!

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

You can just run raylib anywhere. Here's on excel with vba.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

there is no market for way shittier versions of apps/games/software no matter how fast you and an LLM can "make" it

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

Reading these kinds of things is kinda sad...
I really hope the ai fearmongering doesn't make people give up getting into programming, especially young people. Same thing with artists.

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

On a similar note, all languages can be considered general-purpose as long as they can call C code :)

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Any language is just a frontend for Raylib. Once you realize you can't be replaced by AI.

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

I'm making a very simple text editor in awk, using gawk and raylib! Only basic stuff implemented. Pretty fun project!!
I wanted to finish it before the end of the year but unfortunately I couldn't, got a couple of (good) life-changing stuff in my life right now.
Happy new year!!!

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

Here's a couple of pictures I took in my last vacation a couple of weeks ago, so beautiful landscapes :)
Also, the one with the bird was accidental, I was trying to take a picture of the clouds' shadows lol

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

@r4ych_ Mostly because people outside of the field would say I'm wasting my time working on something that won't make me money, and don't understand how I have fun doing that
Also because it's kinda a niche hobby, just like people who do math for fun
Idk, maybe that wasn't the right word

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

It's funny because programming is something I really enjoy doing but I'd never admit to people IRL that I do it in my spare time, it's kinda embarrassing :(

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

@hoffridder If it's not a "serious" project, I always love to pick a random, obscure programming language that I've never used before from a list and go from there :)
Haskell is the one I want to try sometime, looks really interesting (and kinda complicated...)

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

@SekiiEv Turns out there's a couple of languages that support units!
https://t.co/Jz60ET3OPz

Reading about how F# does it is really interesting:
https://t.co/oIT4WkCt5c

[Xor @XorDev]

If you see a cool thing on game dev Twitter/X, compliment the dev. We need more niceness in this site

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

Despite that, the api is really well documented and the manual is easy to follow, the gawk team did an amazing job :)
I was able to do bindings for raylib, and it works!

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

I've been playing with the Gawk C api and saw this.
I didn't even know you could have two consts like that... and I don't know how could I search about this particular syntax, "c language two consts" or "c language const pointer and value" yields no results :(

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

A programming language that doesn’t make you cry is not worth learning

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

@tsoding Interestly enough, you can still see the code in their archive account:
https://t.co/NVpHX23rOa

According to their blog post, the reasoning to switch to python was lack of widely used libraries, and the development with python was faster:
https://t.co/nZzRKPNiYT

[SomeUnusualGames @SomeUnusualGame]

@tsoding @rydgel Just watched the vod, I'm happy you brought attention to freebasic, it really is an amazing language :)