You can replace it with this:

suspend fun run() {
     while(true) {
          …
          val dt = nextFrame() // suspending call
     }
}

In this case complex logic can be encapsulated inside a function and a lot of state machine complexity is generated by a compiler. E.g. loops, branches, etc.

This may be more of an IntelliJ issue, but I don't see a subforum for that. Is anyone else getting "Gradle project sync failed. Basic functionality will not work properly." no matter what after reopening a Gradle project? I don't get it the first time after import, but if I close and reopen IntelliJ I get it.

Hey guys, I'm new here and I'm really interested in making a simple online Android game with Kotlin (MMO-ish style, like first milestone is just empty room you can move around and see other players). Would using Zircon+LibGDX be a good start with a node or Golang server and use websockets? I came across this https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/realtimeMultiplayer and just wondering where is the right place to start with this

Hi! So I want to create a thin OpenGL wrapper that targets every platform that Kotlin supports (including wasm). So it'll call to either OpenGL, OpenGL ES or WebGL where appropriate. I have started basic code generation from the official registry but I'm stuck on design and would like some input/tips/advice. 1) `expect`/`actual` or common interface for the commands. I haven't really used ES or WebGL so I'm not sure which will work better for versioning. 2) Top level functions or an object pass around to call gl commands on. 3) Strongly typed enums or plain old `Int`s. 4) Should this be shipped as a gradle plugin that generates the bindings in your project or just ship the generated library. 5) Any idiomatic Kotlin ideas? 6) Should this be in a channel of its own?

Hi, I am just about to start writing my own MMO server, mostly for learning. I am looking for some resources, theory etc. about the subject. Of course I will write it in kotlin 🙂

is there a way to retrieve all the generated gl objects? (buffers, textures, etc..)

@veiset have you tried using #zircon for your game? Seems like a suitable choice for you

Is it possible to use Imgui to render and have one window with a libgdx image? I've seen the example in the wiki and it seems the opposite

that's kinda sad to have to rely on C++ to have decent performance, if Valhalla ever get released, can we expect android's java to support it aswell ?

Hi there! I've just finished a tutorial series I've been working on: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin/comments/c9z5bs/how_to_make_a_roguelike_in_kotlin/

I wrote a short article on how to get started with LibGDX 🎮 https://kotlin.christmas/2019/11

I feel like anything like vert.x would be good

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Howdy #gamedev folks! I recently released a Kotlin Native binding for Godot. Documentation and release notes are available at https://godot-kotl.in. Feedback is definitely welcome 🙂

You wrote in the README" "Kotlin Native's compile times are horribly slow" ... I noticed that too when I was playing around with a rather small windows console app in Kotlin/Native.

Sorry if this is spammy, but after a few years of dev I finally released my Ninja Turdle 2d platformer on steam. It’s all in Kotlin! Originally I started in Java, but then fell in love with Kotlin and ported the code base to Kotlin and never looked back. Was an amazing experience. I now love Kotlin 100x more than when I started and even use Kotlin for everything at my new startup. :) I plan on posting a couple technical blog posts about my learnings along the way and things I wish I knew earlier on.

Hi guys! I wonder if there any kotlin dsl to build typesafe glsl programs?

Hello everyone! Anyone have experience doing kotlin js games using Phaser? Currently struggling setting up a working project. There seems to exist two kotlin wrappers for Phaser. First: https://github.com/hiperbou/kotlin-phaser seems to be good but i cannot get it to work with a multiplatform project(doing web game with jvm backend). @hiperbou Then there is: https://gitlab.com/nanodeath/phaserkt but that seems to be not support the phaser api enough to do a basic game. @nanodeath A third option would be to use Dukat and generate kotlin wrapper from the phaser typscript bindings. But there seems to be a lot of issues with Dukat and this path might be alot of work. I just want to get something up and running. Have anyone looked at this and could give me some pointer on how to do this? A link to some project i can look at would be great! 🙂

Hey guys, is there any nice freetype JNI binding?

Hi guys, I've been working on a cross-platform ECS, if you don't mind to take a look and give feedback I'll really appreciate it. Thanks! https://juan-medina.github.io/kecs/

Hey, just wanted to say that KTX joined the GitHub Discussions beta. You can find our new forum here: https://github.com/libktx/ktx/discussions Feel free to set up new discussions with questions, ideas, your projects and anything you want to talk about with fellow KTX developers. 🙂

Hello gameDev! In noobiee in game development and want to make some 2d games can you guys recommend me which framework ? I want to use Kotlin and if exporting games to device doesn't have any licensing would be great, Edit 1: beginners friendly guides would be great!

What’s a good feature complete game engine/framework written in kotlin-native? (I’d ultimately like to target MacOS/PC/maybe consoles)

AS?

👋 It’s a Work In Progress but I wanted to share with you my pet project. It’s a small 3D multiplatform game engine. At the moment, you can write a game, it will run in your JVM, your browser (except safari at the moment...) and Android too. It’s way more limited than other engine but the goal is to keep things simple. You can try some demos here: https://minigdx.github.io/minigdx-showcase/

I would like to create a mutliplayer game server in Kotlin using websockets to communicate between client and server. I'm assuming that i can use something like Http4k or Ktor to handle the websocket stuff and that I need to learn coroutines to enable myself to run a 'game loop' asynchronously alongside the websocket i/o? does that sound generally correct?

Been working on a 2D game engine in Kotlin for a while now. Finally gotten to the stage where I can start implementing a game in it. Here is a video of the work in progress:

https://github.com/littlektframework/littlekt Just discovered a little 2D game engine using Kotlin multiplateform. 👏