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[–] [email protected] 94 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

It does and I use it and I love it.

But I now, thanks to this post, see I am weak. I must feel pain to feel alive! /s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

This is my thought every time I see anyone talking about the unity news.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Advantages:

  • runs in a web browser
  • very easy to code with

Disadvantages:

  • does not compile to a binary
  • is capped at JS speeds
  • has limited resolution
[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago

Runs at industry standard speed.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

is capped at JS speeds

So, just like every Electron app?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you trying to make games in electron?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

There is actually a decently popular game made in Electron that just recently switched to Unity. RIP

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Vampire Survivors. I was pretty surprised when I looked at the game files

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Except worse, because it's an electron app interpreting the app you actually want to run, so double slowness.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

double slowness.

Sorry, but we prefer to call that "cinematic".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

All fun and games until someone forks it to remove the limits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How's tutorials and troubleshooting resources vs unity? Being able to Google answers is super important.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Bro really needs docs in order to program with frickin' blocks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think there's likely more scratch tutorials though the advanced stuff just requires a basic understanding of logic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Check out turbowarp desktop. You can make a bigger stage and export to exe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This. Turbowrap is amazing.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

Raspberry pi ensures you can put your game studio in your pockets

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Back in my day we called it DigDug and it blew my mind.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Oh wow, I didn't realize it was open source too!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Electron only. 🤢

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But it's written in some oddball language called Squeak

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Squeak is just a programming environment for Smalltalk, the language in which object-oriented programming was invented.

If anything, it's those languages that tried to bolt on object-oriented features to Algol that are the oddballs!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Smalltalk is still being used? That's really surprising honestly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Have you heard of objective C? It is basically C with embedded Smalltalk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

In my first programming class in what Americans would call middle school (I was in grade 9), we got introduced to scratch and used it to draw penises lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

there's a guy in the emudev server working on a gba emulator in scratch (and completed a Gameboy one, and it's pretty accurate AND fast!)