What is up my dude?

[crertel]

I was hoping to be the first person to release a realtime game in scenic (that is continuous, not just discrete grid stuff like Snake), but you beat me to it. :)

Anyways, I was hacking on this last night and a couple of things:

• You can really simplify the "constrain" behavior by using :math.fmod to just wrap the player or asteroid coordinates to the screen dimensions.
• You can also use pattern matching in the shoot method to remove the case statement in the try_shoot stuff.
• I'm a little weirded out by your use of protocols (instead of behaviors) for entities, but I like the idea and would subscribe to your news letter.
• You need to add drawing twice (maybe more?) to gracefully handle entities overlapping edges and wrapping on the screen.
• The really fun part about collision detection/updating should use worker processes.

Anyways, it's really awesome that you put up a nice PoC that's easy to hack on, and I'd love to talk with you more on this stuff. HMU on the twitters (same username).

[axelson]

Thanks for all this! It makes a lot of sense and I will be taking a deeper look when time permits.

[crertel]

If you want to pair on it, I could setup a Zoom call and walk through some of it in person with you. Could be fun. :)

[axelson]

That sounds like fun. I'll be available sometime in early to mid January. I'll dm you on Twitter to set it up

[crertel]

Wunderbar!