SimpleRL

An @ moving around a hardcoded map, in several languages, trying to be as simple as possible and stick to that language's idioms. Intent is to gradually refactor and add functionality. Would love to get contributions, any other langages not already here, improvements etc.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Feb 2011	2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	2	1
Mar 2011	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2011	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2011	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2011	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2011	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2011	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2011	2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2011	2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2011	2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2011	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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Mar 2012	2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2012	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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nrkn·Apr 30, 2012

I manage a repo that has the bare bones of a roguelike in many languages. It's a little more involved than a Hello World in that it needs to handle input, output, state etc. I could always use more languages if anybody wants to pitch in. https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL

In Hello world in every programming language

nrkn·Feb 22, 2011Submission

Show HN: A RogueLike demo in 17 languages

A minimal "@ moving around a hardcoded map" implemented in a bunch of languages, some by me and some contributed by others. A slightly more interesting riff on the Hello World or 99 Bottles of Beer theme. More languages or improvements on existing ones would be nice :) There's a github repo at: https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL

12 points · Open discussion

rsaarelm·Feb 21, 2011

SimpleRL is an ultra-minimal seed for a roguelike game: https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL . It'll make you look into doing an application with an interactive UI somewhat less trivial than what you can do with bare stdin/stdout. From a game development perspective, it's perhaps a bit too minimal (given that the spec can be implemented with static HTML), but it does serve as a sort of hello world for GUI interaction.

In What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language?

nrkn·Feb 10, 2011Submission

RogueLike demo ( moving around a hardcoded map) in multiple languages

1 points · Open discussion