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CodingTrain / Suggestion-Box

A repo to track ideas for topics
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A series coding a full game ?? #692

Open FireGreeks opened 6 years ago

FireGreeks commented 6 years ago

I have a really good idea for a series you could do : A series where you make a complete full game in Processing or p5.js, with a game menu, textures, sounds, and everything. That would be really cool and entairtaining to watch. You could also make live streams creating the game where your community (the people watching) could send in their art, textures, sound effects, ideas on a google drive for example. Like this comment if you like the idea.... :)

AxDSan commented 6 years ago

p5.js itself is not indended to be used as a game engine to develop games, instead you should take a look at the helper library which aims to give the developer some kind of "toolset" to aid the development of a game, but yet again, itself alone is not so great for the task to make an entire game just like the way you're describing it, plus it would take a huge amount of effort from Dan to just do a whole project like the one you're requesting... Not impossible, but would be really tedious from just one person to just start doing an entire game development series out of the blue.

More on P5.play... this is coming straight from the introductory page at p5.play library

p5.play is built for accessibility and simplicity, not performance. It is designed to be understood and possibly modified by intermediate programmers. It is not a box2D-based physics engine, it doesn't use events, nor supports 3D. If you are looking for robust (but more complex) game frameworks I suggest phaser.io or easel.js.

of course it's up to Daniel, ultimately, if he wants to do something like what you're requesting. I just gave my 2 cents.

Versatilus commented 6 years ago

I kind of like this idea. It wouldn't have to be anything incredibly fancy, just something that falls in the gap between the typical proof of concept apps he does in the coding challenges and something commercial or "professional".

I just don't see him having the time to devote to something so involved. He has mentioned before on the live stream that most of it relates in some way fairly directly with what he teaches at NYU.

However, this sounds like a great community project to me! It would have to be organized and run by community volunteers. It could be centered around possible guest videos.

FireGreeks commented 6 years ago

Really like that idea about the community project @Versatilus ! 👍