I've been experimenting with using Compose to render a retro-pixel-art style RPG. All programmer art...

# compose-desktop

[Brian G]

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

progress.mp4

[therealbluepandabear]

That's really cool!

The art is also really nice, I'm looking forward to see your game progress 👍🏻

Is it open source?

[Brian G]

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

[Colton Idle]

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

[Colton Idle]

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]

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.

[Brian Guertin]

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

[therealbluepandabear]

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]

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.

[Brian Guertin]

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

[therealbluepandabear]

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.

[Brian Guertin]

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]

Interesting, I'll take a look.