After a long break, I started to make a new game. Working title: “Gloomy Dungeons 2D” (or GD2D).
It will be 2d remake of Gloomy Dungeons 3D (GD) and Gloomy Dungeons 2: Blood Honor (GD2). While GD and GD2 is old-school 3d shooters, GD2D will be top-down 2d shooter.
For one game I need ability to change screen orientation (portrait or landscape) at runtime. For Andriod and iOS targets.
I searched for ready-to-use extension, but found nothing. I’m not going to say that such extension does not exists, but I spent more than a an hour, and still found nothing.
Finally I decide to write my own.
For the story, I took an old idea about Dr. Evil, who steals colors, and the world become black and white.
Very soon our first game will be submitted to the appstore, but this time I want to talk about small side-project.
And finally, I’ll make the same task using hxbolts (few words about – it is pure haxe port of java library Bolts, which itself seems to be inspired by Task Parallel Library from dotNET).
TL;DR – 🙂 Strongly typed, easy to use. Without all this async / await magic, but predictable and well tested.
Today I will try to use hext-flow. Unfortunately version from haxelib don’t work anymore, so I used version from github instead (both hext-flow and hext-core).
TL;DR – 🙁 Has no ability to chain promises, resolved and rejected values must be of the same type, promise can be resolved outside of creator function.
This library is somehow similar to continuation – it use haxe macro magic to be able to use C#-like async / await. Only 94 haxelib downloads and 27 github stars, I think this lib need more attention. Okay… Click… Press… Voila, 28 github stars 🙂 I will use version from github, however my code should work (I hope) with version from haxelib.
TL;DR – 🙂 Works like a charm. Still need some polishing, but can be used right now.
This time I’ll use a library that uses a different approach. Library called “continuation”, and installed 1345 times. I will use version 1.3.2.
TL;DR – 🙁 Looks promising, but usage of try / catch blocks inside @:async functions is tricky.
This library hasn’t been updated for 2 years, and it seems that it’s designed for other purposes and not for those for whom I was trying to use it. Anyway, let’s try, because this lib (v1.0.6) has incredible haxelib downloads – 11586 (wow!).
TL;DR – 🙁 As I thought, it is designed for other purposes, and can’t be used as Promises.
This time I will try to use thx.promise v0.5.1. Pretty much haxelib downloads: 412.
TL;DR – 😐 Easy to use, strongly typed with clean code. There are one thing (in my point of view it is an error, but I can provide arguments for both sides) in Promise.all(), which can be easily fixed.