David R. MacIver - Latest Comments in Not really LÖVING it

Re: Not really LÖVING it

Florian — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:14:45 -0000

I have not yet found the time to test it, but this may be relevant for your project to write something in
scala: http://technically.us/code/...

Re: Not really LÖVING it

david — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:08:10 -0000

Villane:

On further investigation, Slick looks rather interesting. I should definitely have a play with that.

Re: Not really LÖVING it

david — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:07:50 -0000

rude:

Thanks for the tip about 1. Dare I suggest that "eat 100% of the CPU" is not a good default, even if it's circumventable. :-)

2 is hard to reproduce reliably, but was particularly noticeable with pidgin - often existing pidgin instances would crash when love started up or closed (problem observed both under linux and windows xp).

Re: Not really LÖVING it

rude — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:49:36 -0000

Heh, you should start a competitor called HÄTE. :3

Two things:

1. Yes, LÖVE will take all the CPU it can get by default. Sleep a few milliseconds in the main loop if you don't like it.
2. Randomly crash other applications? This is the first I've heard of this happening. If you have any more information, it would be cool if you could send it to me.

Re: Not really LÖVING it

Villane — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:35:29 -0000

I haven't looked into LÖVE, but I'm working on 2D games in Scala.

I'm using the Slick Java library (recommend it!) and my Scala port of JBox2D physics engine as the foundation. However, I don't think the level of abstraction provided by those libraries is enough to implement a game, so I'm writing a game entity system on top of those, plus some other goodies. It takes advantage of some Scala's modularity features (traits most of all) and I think it's going to be awesome :) I will release an early version of the engine (source code) in a few months.

A video of an early game prototype in action is available: search for "Orbitum" on youtube.

Re: Not really LÖVING it

Villane — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:19:05 -0000

I haven't looked into LÖVE, but I'm working on 2D games in Scala. Here's a crappy webcam video of a current prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

I'm using the Slick 2D engine and Box 2D for physics (the latter I ported to Scala). In a few months, I hope to release both a demo and make the source of the engine available.