DEV Community: Matthew Harris

Typhoon engine, a new up and comer

Matthew Harris — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 05:58:18 +0000

Hello developers of the world, I am working on a game engine called Typhoon Engine and it is designed with modern in mind.

It is being made with rust and opengl and in the future will use egui for the editor (tempest-editor). If you could go take a look it would mean the world as it is hard to maintain all on my own.

The current state of the engine is very early meaning the codebase isn't massive making it easier to contribute as there aren't as many things.

Not only that but there are currently some issues and more to come as well as a 0.1.0 milestone to help know what is priority.

If you could go give it a look (And maybe a star :>) it would mean the world.

That is all for today see you next time.
Typhoon Engine

What makes a game engine good or bad

Matthew Harris — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 05:52:14 +0000

As every game developer knows unity typically gets hated becuase of those bad mobile games. BUT thats NOT what makes a game engine bad.

Ok so you may be wondering what makes a game engine generally bad and to answer that i have to say 1 thing games engines such as: UE, Unity, Godot, GameMakerStudio, etc etc are NOT bad they all have specific use cases. A bad game engine is one which it doesn't aid the game dev in making a game. A example of this would be something like opengl and glfw as it isnt made to make games but made to make game engine and other low level graphic programs.

But i want to hear your opinion and I'm also asking for help, currently i am making my own game engine with rust but i can't do it alone. It isn't a small project so if you could please come take a look and help out it would mean the world. The game engine is linked here, so please take a look

Anyway have a good day and let me know your opinion in the comments

Lizard Engine, A new engine to be?

Matthew Harris — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:30:03 +0000

Hello everyone, hope you are having a amazing day

Today I'm deciding to tell you all about something cool I'm working on.

I am working on a game engine utilizing WebGL BUT there will be support for making desktop apps via tauri.

There will also be a visual editor for it sometime in the future.

The goal of lizard engine is to be strong engine made for smaller games that can also be utilized for bigger games.

The game engine is built directly on top of WebGL with no other frameworks (aside tauri for desktop apps when support for that is added).

Aside from that i would love to see some of you contribute on the project or even just take a look, And maybe start it ;).

Anyway the repo can be found on github here

Have a good day everyone

QOTW, Week 1

Matthew Harris — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:42:28 +0000

Hello everyone and welcome to a new thing i'm going to start doing, QOTW (question of the week).

This weeks QOTW is:

What is your favorite new (last 3 years) open source technology and why?

In my opinion it would be rust for Linux as I would love to see some rust in the Linux kernel.

Anyway be sure to leave a comment down below telling us what your favorite is.

Have a nice day.

What does typescript add onto JavaScript

Matthew Harris — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:50:25 +0000

Hello everyone today I am here to discuss and here your comments on what typescript adds to JavaScript and what cases it should be used in.

In my personal opinion and just recently switching from JavaScript to typescript I can definitely say typescript is amazing and should be used in a lot of places.

One of the main places I think should use typescript is in npm packages as it can help debugging with type safety.

Although I do believe JavaScript still has a place being used to develop websites with pure html, css, and js. The reason i say this is because I believe it is easier it interface with then typescript as you skip the compiling step.

My main point is that if you use JavaScript for developing npm packages or just developing in general, you should give typescript a shot. If you need help developing a tsconfig file you can use my tsconfig as a baseline.

If you have anything else to add please let me know, as I would be glad to add more info to the post

Have a nice day and happy programming

Sweeper.js src changed from js to ts

Matthew Harris — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:56:17 +0000

Hello everyone.

I have recently decided to make the choice to change the Sweeper.js from JavaScript to typescript.

The reason I have decided to do this as custom types and type checking could become useful later in dev and it is easier to change in early development then late development.

Anyway it would help a lot if you could star and help with the development of Sweeper.js on GitHub

Have a nice day and hope to see you on GitHub

Sweeper.js Update

Matthew Harris — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:06:13 +0000

Hello again, this post covers the goals of sweeper.js if you don't know what sweeper.js check out this post

Currently with sweeper.js I am working on a way to create a custom div, my goal with this is to have the div code utilize sweeper code so you never have to write html.

In a perfect world the ideal basic sweeper.js project would look like this

const sweeper = require('sweeper.js');

sweeper.init('windowTitle' () => {
    sweeper.div('divClass' () => {
        sweeper.h('h size', 'text', 'class');
    });

    sweeper.color('color', 'class')
});

But sadly it currently looks like this (with no way to make custom divs)

const sweeper = require('sweeper.js');

sweeper.init('title');

sweeper.h('h size', 'text', 'class');
sweeper.color('color', 'class');

sweeper.endHtml();

Anyway it would really help if you could check out and contribute to the project

GitHub: https://github.com/MrEggoXYZ/Sweeper.js#readme
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sweeper.js

Sweeper.js

Matthew Harris — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:15:18 +0000

Hi everyone, this is my first post but definitely not last. Currently I am working on a react like project called sweeper.js, it would mean the world if you could check it out and may be even give the GitHub repo a star. Currently the package is in beta with no expected release date. Anyway thank you for your time and I hope you like the project

GitHub: https://github.com/MrEggoXYZ/Sweeper.js#readme
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sweeper.js