Show HN: oh my giraffe – An iOS and Android game I made to learn programming

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by kneeko • 12 years ago

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lisnake• 12 years ago

Congrats on shipping! And looks like a really nice game. What framework did you use for cross-platform development?

kneeko3• 12 years ago

Thank you! I used LÖVE (https://love2d.org), which began to support iOS and Android roughly six months ago through two community ports.

jgdreyes• 12 years ago

Oh this looks really cute and great job!

coralreef• 12 years ago

What kind of programming techniques did you learn?

kneeko3• 12 years ago

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.

mind_heist• 12 years ago

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.

kneeko3• 12 years ago

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.

Show HN: oh my giraffe – An iOS and Android game I made to learn programming

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