Meanwhile i see Oracle as just a husk of Sun Microsystem, for what it's worth, Java has some great ideas behind it, and I still reluctantly love it.
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That said, I've written Mono/.NET code with Gtk# in the past and it's all pretty much dead and unsupported now. I'm not even sure if Gtk# works with .NET Core.
Java isn't a great language, but it was a major step away from manual memory management and a full VM. There are a lot of much better languages that run on the JVM such as Scala, Kotlin, etc. (although Scala libraries are getting pretty insane with cryptic functionality and error messages).
@djsumdog @icedquinn @lanodan @hj I think GameMaker before it was GameMaker: Studio would cross-compile their games into Delphi. But now, they apparently compile to C# (haven't looked into it any further).
that company is run by human garbage though. they put in code to destroy files if the DRM triggers wrong, blew up some guy's project, then he was treated like shit on the forums until PR damage control showed up to confirm he paid the monies and the dev who put the feature in was basically like "bruh i wanted to make pirates suffer."
@djsumdog @hj @lanodan @xianc78
It's a good thing indies forked off Monogame and the like because DRMware can fuck itself.
@icedquinn @djsumdog @lanodan @hj @parisc I use MonoGame but only for 2D stuff. I think the shader problem is still there. Last time I checked the official documentation has a tutorial for compiling shaders on Linux using Wine.
@djsumdog @hj @lanodan @xianc78
XNA could do 3d and a few games did use it (infinite flight notably did, alongside lots of XBLIG games) but you have to do a lot of low level work to get 3d out of it compared to 2d. One dev called Monogame a convenient set of c# libraries as opposed to an engine.
Most of the time 3d stuff was bigger with monogame/XNA on WP7 and XBLIG because those were the only options for programming. Now there's little interest because you can use Godot or Unity instead.
@parisc @icedquinn @djsumdog @lanodan @hj I think it could serve a nice middleground for those who don't want to work with a full engine while still not wanting to get into the very low level workings of OpenGL or Vulkan. I'm currently working with 2D right now but I would love to move on to 3D at some point.
I would really like to try to create a psuedo-3D engine. Maybe using something like raycasting (the algorithm used for Wolfenstein 3D) because it doesn't seem that hard to implement. With raycasting, everything is happening in 2D but you are seeing a 3D representation of it.
@icedquinn @djsumdog @lanodan @hj The engine is also a mountain of duct tape on top of an old codebase. It's really showing it's age like having game speed being tied to the FPS.
I often hear people say that it's the GameBryo of indie game engines.
