Show HN: oh my giraffe – An iOS and Android game I made to learn programming(ohmygiraffe.com)
ohmygiraffe.com
Show HN: oh my giraffe – An iOS and Android game I made to learn programming
http://www.ohmygiraffe.com
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This is really cool ! do you have you code on Git or somewhere ? I tried building a small game with pygame .. and wasn't too bad.
The source will end up on GitHub when I get the chance to tidy things a little! For now, you could dig into the .love (which is just a renamed zip archive) that is available for the Linux preview. But you definitely shouldn't because I'll be pretty embarrassed.
Congrats on shipping! And looks like a really nice game. What framework did you use for cross-platform development?
Thank you! I used LÖVE (https://love2d.org), which began to support iOS and Android roughly six months ago through two community ports.
What kind of programming techniques did you learn?
Lua is very multi-paradigm so it certainly made for an interesting place to start. The most valuable thing I learned is profiling before optimizing. The way Lua tables work also helped me understand the advantages of different data structures, because if you don't, the flexibility is fairly treacherous. Lua also convinced me that static typing is very useful.
Oh this looks really cute and great job!