ovidiubadita
Hey all,
I discovered Elixir and I love it. I always wanted to learn a functional programming and I intended to go for Haskell, but after discovering Elixir, I think I will spend a lot of time learning it well. For web development seems to be a great tool.
This is just out of curiosity, more than a practical question, but I want to understand the limits of this technology.
Can you make games in Elixir and deploy them on client systems?
I know it works in Erlang Vm, but I suppose the VM can also be installed on the client. But can Elixir render rich graphical content and use graphical resource?
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jupmorenor
So I could create an Elixir server to manage data distribution and syncronizing objects through clients and make clients with a GameDev specialised tool that simply authenticates to the server…
If Elixir is intended for servers, then use it to create servers
PragTob
That’s so cool. I love these type of games. Jackbox Party pack and Eon Altar are the ones I know that do it and those are SO MUCH fun with friends. I’ll check out the game and code!
In general, I think elixir is great for the server side as long as no heavy physics calculations/number crunching is involved.
I’m still very skeptical with Elixir for more involved graphics but am very happy to be proven wrong.
Qqwy
You might be referring to the game InVected we (me and a couple of other guys, some from our company, some from the university) built for the last Global Game Jam, using Unity for the front-end, and Elixir+Phoenix for the back-end, which synchronized a very simple browser application on the user’s phone with the large Unity screen, allowing them to use their phones as ‘joysticks’. It was a lot of fun, and supports 14+ players (that’s as much as we’ve tested it with at the end of the 48h game jam).
massimo
I think Scenic it’s the giant step forward we needed to talk about GameDev in Elixir
I wrote about it here
ethanscott
I am not too sure about this, but there was a post on this forum which said that Elixir and Unity 3D was combined.
I had to learn unity because it was a prerequisite for a job that I was going to get.
As far as I can tell the unity game engine is pretty comprehensive about everything and all-in-all a well built engine.
Combining it with elixir is an added advantage that’s all
ShalokShalom
So all whats left seems to be a generic QML library:
https://filcuc.github.io/DOtherSide/
And the README of libqmlbind mentions special API code for dynamical languages, while itself seems to be unmaintained for one year, so it might make sense to port those parts of the API into DOtherside? Again, of course, if anybody is interested at all.
ShalokShalom
So, ErlangVM already supports that by nature? So I guess this project was started before?
Anyway, do you think it will work? Here is a more expanded view on this:
OvermindDL1
Uh, not really? That is just a port mapping library (which you can already do in straight OTP/BEAM without libraries) to an external app that you have to build? ^.^;
ShalokShalom
It is outdated. Last update 2014.
Here is another solution, with full Qt support: Is there any support for Qt? · Issue #5 · luc-tielen/Cure · GitHub
OvermindDL1
Sorry for my terse messages today, just crazy busy at work, I can be more detailed later if wanted. ^.^;