I ve been experimenting with using Compose to render a retro kotlinlang #compose-desktop

I've been experimenting with using Compose to render a retro-pixel-art style RPG. All programmer art for now. Having fun though. The pixelated text is rendered using normal compose

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function, I made the human sprite in Aseprite. And yes, there are hats.

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therealbluepandabear

02/06/2022, 4:06 AM

That's really cool! The art is also really nice, I'm looking forward to see your game progress 👍🏻 Is it open source?

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Brian G

02/06/2022, 3:06 PM

I think I would like to open source some or all of it when I'm less ashamed of the code quality 🙂

Colton Idle

02/07/2022, 6:05 PM

I'd love to see the most basic version of this games code.

First things that come to mind is... how does the little guy move. how is the background/level built? how is this only with compose! Way cool. id be very interested in just a stripped down version of this game. like walking, and level. that could kickstart me to build my own!

Brian Guertin

02/09/2022, 11:54 PM

Thanks for the interest, I hope to have time to share some of the code in the future. At this point I'm still figuring out if I like using Compose this way.

I'm also toying with with writing Behaviour trees using coroutines.

therealbluepandabear

02/10/2022, 1:48 AM

Yeah, I mean as much as this project is nice I have a weird feeling Compose would make your life 10x harder when creating a game, it would be better to use a dedicated game engine or framework. Although what you have demonstrated is the fantastic capability of Compose.

Brian Guertin

02/10/2022, 3:28 AM

That depends entirely on the game. The more UI-heavy your game, the more useful Compose will be, since it really is a fantastic UI library. And the

Canvas

is good enough for most simple 2D graphics rendering.

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I actually converted this project from libGDX and I find the Compose version waaay simpler

therealbluepandabear

02/10/2022, 4:28 AM

That's interesting, because I was actually wanting to get into game development with Android Studio, most people I spoke to recommended a game engine - thanks for changing my perspective on things.

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Brian Guertin

02/10/2022, 2:14 PM

I saw this other Compose game that is already open source. I recommend checking it out! @Colton Idle @therealbluepandabear The source code is very clean, easy to follow: https://github.com/mariodujic/Neon

therealbluepandabear

03/14/2022, 3:51 AM

Interesting, I'll take a look.

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