Post by @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 5 hr. ago

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@serapath/117164325964214898

#NOWHERE is a videogame and our end product. It has a "procgen assets only" rule, so it needs a engine+GUI for fast iteration.

This engine is supposed to be #tukan, which needs a PL for procgen, and should ideally be expandable by the same PL.

This PL was first None (2014), then #Scopes (2016), and now finally #nudl (2024).

For parsing, nudl uses #sxpp which is a parser & preprocessor for SX, a format developed for Scopes.

There is also #libarcmem, a refcounted memory safe heap.

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@serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place 12 hr. ago

@lritter i am curious if you have a short summary of you long term vision or reasoning for the work you do and how the various projects relate 🙂

#libarcmem #sxpp #nowhere #nudl #tukan #scopes

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@serapath@mastodon.gamedev.place 37 min. ago

@lritter its fascinating.
who would have thought nowhere will take a lifetime. its art.

is tukan gonna be a general purpose engine?

and why wasnt `None` good enough and why did it needs `Scopes` and why wasnt that good enough and will `nudl` be good enough?

i assuke both, None and Scopes were fundamentally flawed so they couldnt be upgrqded with what motivated `nudl`?

Leonard Ritter

@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place 13 min. ago

@serapath Tukan will be no Godot. Asset support will be quite limited. There will be no big support for importing image formats, wave files, Blender models etc. Its primary purpose is in supporting this particular game.

"None" was a lispy layer on top of Terralang (https://terralang.org). The incompatibilities between Lua and C made metaprogramming difficult, so I prototyped a multi-stage compiler that only depends on itself, and this became Scopes.

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