Building a Roguelike Game with TypeScript

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Unity

So I'm still decided to learn Unity and do a project with it. However, my C# knowledge is close to nil 😛. I've known about Phaser for a few years now, and stayed away from it for multiple reasons, the main one being that there really isn't a big community, compared to other engines like Unity or Godot. But currently, it's almost fully compatible with Typescript, which in my head, is acting like a stepping stone to C#. So I went it it.

#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 197 social mentions

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Phaser

So I'm still decided to learn Unity and do a project with it. However, my C# knowledge is close to nil 😛. I've known about Phaser for a few years now, and stayed away from it for multiple reasons, the main one being that there really isn't a big community, compared to other engines like Unity or Godot. But currently, it's almost fully compatible with Typescript, which in my head, is acting like a stepping stone to C#. So I went it it.

#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 120 social mentions

3

Ora

I've always used project management tools for my solo projects. For this project I changed over from Ora to ClickUp last month. For managing what needs to be done, defining a roadmap and managing my progress, ClickUp's free tier does the trick. I've cooperated with two social media managers so far and a project management tool to centralize your game documents is essential. So far I've only contracted the services of two social media managers, but I will eventually need to at least 1 graphic designer. I've been using Obsidian to store Game Design Documents, spreadsheets and diagrams, but I will eventually move some of this to ClickUp in order to make task creation and onboarding more efficient.

#Project Management #Task Management #Kanban 8 social mentions

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Obsidian.md

I've always used project management tools for my solo projects. For this project I changed over from Ora to ClickUp last month. For managing what needs to be done, defining a roadmap and managing my progress, ClickUp's free tier does the trick. I've cooperated with two social media managers so far and a project management tool to centralize your game documents is essential. So far I've only contracted the services of two social media managers, but I will eventually need to at least 1 graphic designer. I've been using Obsidian to store Game Design Documents, spreadsheets and diagrams, but I will eventually move some of this to ClickUp in order to make task creation and onboarding more efficient.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions

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Godot Engine

So I'm still decided to learn Unity and do a project with it. However, my C# knowledge is close to nil 😛. I've known about Phaser for a few years now, and stayed away from it for multiple reasons, the main one being that there really isn't a big community, compared to other engines like Unity or Godot. But currently, it's almost fully compatible with Typescript, which in my head, is acting like a stepping stone to C#. So I went it it.

#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions

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Apache Cordova

Phaser has its caveats, but it has a lot of tutorials. In fact, most stuff I've implemented, I used their tutorial examples as a template. Their API documentation is a bit fuzzy and not everything will be on the first page you hit. After dwelling through GitHub, I forked a nice Cordova Phaser Template with Typescript which has some cool feature out of the box, mainly a BGM player (with Howler.js), Firebase integration and mobile platform support with Cordova on top of a webpack config with a dev server, and of course, Typescript support.

#Development Tools #JavaScript Framework #Javascript UI Libraries 43 social mentions

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Visual Studio Code

Despite the fact that I'm going solo on this one, I've also been using Gitkraken with WSLg as a Git GUI to help me visualize what changes I did in the codebase. For example, I can easily find a specific commit which introduced a bug in the codebase and can easily revert it with the built-in code editor. It's one of the products I definitely recommend you get for everything you do that involves a git repository. As per usual, I'm using Visual Studio Code which goes on steroids when using Typescript. It's been a really smooth experience. I've installed some TS extensions, and I was ready to go. You can check my last post to find which extensions I'm currently using.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1021 social mentions

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ClickUp

I've always used project management tools for my solo projects. For this project I changed over from Ora to ClickUp last month. For managing what needs to be done, defining a roadmap and managing my progress, ClickUp's free tier does the trick. I've cooperated with two social media managers so far and a project management tool to centralize your game documents is essential. So far I've only contracted the services of two social media managers, but I will eventually need to at least 1 graphic designer. I've been using Obsidian to store Game Design Documents, spreadsheets and diagrams, but I will eventually move some of this to ClickUp in order to make task creation and onboarding more efficient.

#Productivity #Project Management #Task Management 109 social mentions