Robin Arys

Robin Arys

@zedutch.bsky.social

Computer Science Engineer by day, Indie game developer by night. Sometimes also a musician around dusk. He/him.

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Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

Dear OCaml people, what is a good way to print the value of any variable, like a list or something? I’m having trouble finding out the value of stuff in the middle of a bunch of List.map or List.filter expressions. Ideally I’d like something simple that I can just pipe the value to to print it

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

Day 1 of #AdventOfCode: check! First Elixir, went very smooth, then rewrote in OCaml. That was quite a bit harder, but I did manage to get there in the end! Feedback welcome, especially about making things more idiomatic (or easier in the case of OCaml, I really struggled) github.com/zedutch/aoc-...

github.comGitHub - zedutch/aoc-2024: Advent of code in Elixir and/or OCamlAdvent of code in Elixir and/or OCaml. Contribute to zedutch/aoc-2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

I went with Elixir for #AdventOfCode day 1 in the end. Will probably try to do the first few days with OCaml as well as I find it a very interesting language. And who knows, I might end up switching to it as the main language for this year’s aoc!

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Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

I actually had to force-quit the app to resolve this. Even though the “new message” screen was working correctly, the timeline was still broken after I got back to it

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

There’s been a very noticeable increase in new followers over the last two days… Hi y’all! 👋 I make video games and music and random other stuff. Currently I’m still obsessed the new Factorio expansion but I will be getting back to game development with Odin very soon

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

Bad news: I didn’t do any #gamedev work today Good news: the new #factorio DLC is amazing Bad news: I probably won’t do much gamedev work in the following days either These things may or may not be related, no way to tell really…

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

Coding an octree implementation without reference, using a new language, and on 2 hours of sleep is definitely a vibe. It does seem to be working though. Maybe tired me is better at these things than wide-awake me #gamedev

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

So are we doing #screenshotsaturday on here? I would post something if I hadn’t just turned off my pc to go to bed. I’ll make up for it next week! Unless we’re turning it into #screenshotsunday this time? :D #gamedev

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

I am in fact, once again, making a game from scratch! It’s a 3D Dwarf Fortress-inspired city builder I’ve tried making (and stopped working on) multiple times before. #gamedev

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Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

I did start with GLFW and plain OpenGL, but I actually want to create a game and it felt like that was going to take too long by going the OpenGL route again. Odin makes cross-platform super easy, I can just switch between macOS and Windows while working on my laptop vs desktop

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

I absolutely love #golang for day-job stuff, so there’s a good chance #odinlang might become my go-to for #gamedev. There are some minor annoyances but they are actively improving the language with every release. It’s been a while since I’ve been this excited about gamedev stuff!

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

I am in fact, once again, making a game from scratch! It’s a 3D Dwarf Fortress-inspired city builder I’ve tried making (and stopped working on) multiple times before. #gamedev

Robin Arys
@zedutch.bsky.social

I’m using Odin #odinlang this time, with #raylib so not as from-scratch as usually. Both are new to me. Odin is really nice, it’s a lot like Go with some more quality-of-life stuff. Raylib feels like LibGDX back in the day, I’m not totally convinced yet but it does feel like I might end up liking it

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