DevLog 1: 10/15/2024 Desguon Room

DevKiD — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:11:06 +0000

Hello there!

I took a break from dev.to. I had a lot of different things to do. The weeks I spend organizing my life are hard and heavy. It was full of things. But now I saw something new and amazing. It’s Unity 6. It’s been a long time since I left the game development industry. Unreal Engine 4 or Unity 2019, both are too difficult to use or it took too long to create a project. The C++ and C# languages that I know are easy to implement in this project. But every time I started a project, my motivation and hopes were gone, my goal of creating a new game was gone.

But with time everything will change. With Unity 6 I created a simple virtual camera for meetings and it made me re-program my Desguon Room project and start again. My hopes for this are high.

So I will start with the main part of the DevLog.
The project idea is to create a level editor/builder that will allow you to create your own escape rooms with Dunguon. There will also be a platformer mode, but that will come later. I will make the first and most important part: the escape rooms and Dunguon. When the editor is ready, I will create a mod loader that will allow embedding sprites, code and more. I also want to create a story mode.
In this game there should be worlds, levels and more, that’s why I need people to participate. I need a pixel artist, programmer and musician (although I am a musician). It you want to participate or collaborate send me a e-mail to duynamschlitzbusiness@gmail.com.

Thank you for reading this post.

ASSEMBLY is the BEST

DevKiD — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:36:23 +0000

ASM our language in which we communicate

We all know what ASM is. Am i right? The code goes through a compiler which becomes an abstract structure etc. I looked at compilers, hybrids and interpreters. What I found? It is very hard to understand. Why people like me want to develop a compiler? BECAUSE, I'm currently developing on a compiler. I don't think that make any sense. But the journey doesn't end here.

Why is ASM the best programming language? (Meant ironically)

Everything that is controlled: keyboard, mouse, computer, etc. is written in ASM. Therefore, compilers have to rewrite the code. You can say that the compiler is simply a translator.

Let's see what really happens:
Our code:

let x = 1 + 2;
let y = 8;
let z = x + y + 2;
exit(z);

The code in ASM (NASM):

global _start
_start:
    mov rax, 1
    push rax
    mov rax, 2
    push rax
    ; Add
    pop rax
    pop rbx
    add rax, rbx
    push rax
    mov rax, 8
    push rax
    ; Call var: x
    push QWORD [rsp + 8]
    ; Call var: y
    push QWORD [rsp + 8]
    mov rax, 2
    push rax
    ; Add
    pop rax
    pop rbx
    add rax, rbx
    push rax
    ; Add
    pop rax
    pop rbx
    add rax, rbx
    push rax
    ; Call var: z
    push QWORD [rsp + 0]
    ; Exit by var.
    mov rax, 60
    pop rdi
    syscall
    mov rax, 60
    mov rdi, 0
    syscall

Really hard to read, isn't it? Let's look.

The code is first converted into tokens, then into an abstract form, and finally into code. (Very simplified)

The code (see above) is in [let; ID; Eq; int_lit; Plus; int_lit; half; ...] converted. What we see are individual tokens. Then it is placed in a structure. [let->value->id], [let->value->id->int_lit]...
This structure can be read by the compiler. At the end of the process, the game pieces or puzzle pieces are put into a shape. That's how easy it can be. Um. (Not really. This process resulted in 1000 lines of C++ code.) Sometimes you should just be on the Internet and know how difficult it is to pull off something like this.

Yeah, after the journey you now know how the compiler works with very basics of knowledge of compiler. I will create another journey about interpreters and hybrids. I know that thos is very short. Bye!

We live with code!

DEV Community: DevKiD

DevLog 1: 10/15/2024 Desguon Room

ASSEMBLY is the BEST

ASM our language in which we communicate

Why is ASM the best programming language? (Meant ironically)