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I'm rewriting my 14 year old "Impact" JavaScript game engine... in C. No reason. Just a lot of fun.

Dominic Szablewski

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Dominic Szablewski2 years ago

It's amazing how "ergonomic" C can be with the right approach. Years ago I implemented all kinds of containers and piled on abstractions. I was working against the language, now I'm embracing it. Feels good :]

Sean Bohan2 years ago

Did exactly same thing 2 years ago (sokol + C), big fan of both impact and sokol. Also made editor with imgui :)

Dominic Szablewski2 years ago

That's amazing! I'm currently in the process of adapting ye old editor to local file support (no more PHP API). Not quite ready to rewrite _that_ in C yet :] Did you make the source available?

kache2 years ago

this game looks sick man

Nedim Arabacı2 years ago

I used it for my first game! And people are still playing. 💙

Felipe Budinich 🎃2 years ago

Please open source it 😬 (or sell licences again would gladly pay for it, the documentation and everything was top notch).

jmbm2 years ago

Nice to hear. Impact was really nice to work with :)

『 YaBoyJ313 』2 years ago

Congrats. That’s awesome to hear. C is such an elegant and refined language.

Dominic Szablewski2 years ago

To be fair, it was the first one!

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