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Finding Delight in Unfamiliar Languages

Sometimes, languages we are unfamiliar with end up being delightful. At one point, I opted to compile F# to Dart for a Flutter project rather than use Dart directly because certain tasks were more verbose than I desired. While F# compiled to Dart quite flawlessly and impressively, I later decided

Ray Tracer Challenge in F#

Notes from my README. This repository is a for-fun project I'm working on as I have some free time. I'm going through Jamis Buck's book ray tracer challenge, which is a language-agnostic book on how to build a ray tracer, guiding primarily through cucumber-style

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Godot 4 and F#

Update: After beginning to make a game, it turned out not to be as straightfoward as this post implies. Primarily because Godot 4 requires that the C# class be a partial class extending the corresponding Godot entity. F# doesn't have a direct translation of partial classes as far

.NET 6 in Godot 4 Alpha

It looks like the Godot 4 alpha will be getting .NET 6 soon, according to this recent news. This is pretty exciting. I look forward to trying it out and may end up doing a guide on setting up F# in Godot 4. I'm particularly interested to see

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GetNode()

GDScript has a convenient shortcut for grabbing a child node reference within a script. For example, grabbing an AnimatedSprite and setting it to play a certain animation can be done with $AnimatedSprite.animation = "animation name". Getting a node in C# and F# is a bit more verbose. In

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Preferring Immutability in Godot

Game engine development tends to rely on mutability, such as keeping up with an object's position on-screen. Typically, the game object is represented by a single class with a "position" property, and as the object moves around that property mutates to reflect its new value. This

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Exporting Godot Variables in F#

In Godot, it's convenient to export variables so that they can be updated via the Inspector tab. Doing so in C# looks like this: using Godot; public class Player : Area2D { [Export] public float Speed = 2f; public override void _Ready() {} public override void _Process(float delta) {} } Here the Speed

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Godot and F#

Over the weekend I got a game started with Godot Mono and F#. It works out pretty well, although it relies on using C# to extend types defined in F#. Out of the gate I've taken up a convention of defining a namespace just for defining a type

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Invisible

Just completed a prototype for Weekly Game Jam #147. The theme was "invisible". What we came up with was a space adventure where you must reach a base, but the base is cloaked until a certain objective is met. We had lofty goals and only produced a subset

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Game Jams

Game jams are a nice way to develop a game under a set of constraints so that you don't get bogged down with too many details, or end up with an eternal side project. I'd like to do a few this year hopefully with some friends

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Throwaway Code

Sometimes we write code that we know will be thrown away - especially in the discovery phase of a feature or product. The problem is, often circumstances cause this sort of code to be shipped. I imagine a fair amount of cursing under one's breath the previous developer