A New Game Written in D

[solidstate1991]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 16:36:34 UTC, Kenny Shields wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been building a game engine in D for the past 2 and a half 
> years and have finally reached a point where it's usable in 
> day-to-day game development. Earlier this year I decided to 
> make a simple shooter game to serve as a tech demo for the 
> engine's capabilities, and also just to get a general idea of 
> how well it works when used in a real application. I did an 
> initial release of the game yesterday on itch.io, you can find 
> more information on the product page if you are interested: 
> https://kenny-shields.itch.io/untitled-shooter-game
>
> This isn't an open-source project, but I wanted to post this 
> here for anyone who might be interested in seeing D used for 
> cross-platform game development. Any questions/comments about 
> the implementation and design of the game/engine are welcome.
>
> On a side note, I'd like to give special thanks to Walter and 
> all of you who who contribute to D to make it what it is today. 
> D is a fantastic language and really can't see myself using 
> anything else for development at this point. Also, shout-out to 
> the LDC developers as well, really great compiler.

It's pretty cool, however I can suggest you to improve the 
controls. It's pretty easy to get struck on walls, character can 
only go forward (or there's something really wrong on my end), 
menus are a bit confusing, etc.

I'm also a game developer, working on an engine 
(PixelPerfectEngine) and a lot of open-source libraries intended 
for game and app development (latest is iota, a D language native 
input-output handling library, currently stuck with window 
management). I'm also working on my first game, although a lot of 
my time and energy getting wasted on an underpaid day-job.