RU-vidrs keep making game engines, and i'm all for it. I enjoy how long it takes until I don't understand anything, and writing C++ is a small part of my job so you'd think I'd know whats happening
Next step I guess is finding a way to interpolate the src code over a bitmap of a level in a way that the level is still recognisable , objects are interactable and the game can be played. Then we have cave story Quine
I like your result and I definitely couldn't do this myself, but I think what sets some of the others apart is that the code isn't just short, it's readable too. With the JavaScript minifier it ends up looking obfuscated, I don't think there's any short section in there that I could understand on its own. Getting it short and readable is a massive limitation though, so I get what you were saying when you mentioned not wanting to do pong or snake, there's not a lot that can be short and readable outside of games of that era.
you should make the background text also include the html (and css if it exists) to be able to just select the whole background, paste it in an html file and run it
Actually it includes them. The only HTML I haven't included is the one for the page displaying the script as I considered that to be outside of the game itself - but I can definitely see your point
I feel like another interesting way this could be developed too would be to have a game with a save file system where the code can overwrite characters in itself to represent the save data, making it so stopping and reloading the game will completely restore the game like a save state. This could probably even be extended to another video I've seen on saving a game in a QR code, but I recall that onr being EXTREMELY tight on data size already, so it would likely work better here.
I would think it'd be easier to do in C since you could just issue ANSI escape sequences directly to modify the terminal output. I doubt I could make it a true quine, but I'll see if I can't at least do a terminal version of Pac-Man. Let's see if I have any time to actually read the research on ghost movements.
I actually did just that 😅 (you can check out the repo), the issue was creating a general solution that could properly compress code for any game. But yeah, creating a full fledged C Quine for Pac-Man would be quite the feat (considering my solution is still not a 1:1 copy even at that size).
i'm trying to send a comment, but everytime i try to do so it automatically gets deleted, but not for my client. trying to edit those unexisting comments results in the "Returned error" error. i tried editing one of my existing comments and it stayed for a while, but now it's gone...?
You think someone could make a rendering engine using a terminal that supports sixels as the output? Could use sixels to render the game in the terminal directly with more clarity, although possibly limited in colors. Would work for certain art style games though or older games that already have limited colors.
@@icitry I wish people didn't get fixated about the religious part of it. I wish there was someone like you who could just do pure coding without restrictions on it. Call it HeresyOS haha
I generally break down the problem into really small parts, based on which I start googling around - and of course getting side-tracked and discovering new stuff that may or may not help me for another project. It's all really the sum of all the stuff I'd studied prior.
@@nikolasg4210 Oh I see. Thing is, that's just intended to be a prototype, so there is no plan to make it cross-platform. You are free to play around with it and port it to use Linux-specific APIs, but the main focus is the JS implementation.
Hey! Gonna be honest, I'm not really the best suited to do that. I'd recommend checking out someone like The Cherno - they delve pretty deep into proper game engine development.
