The Cactus Game Engine

Ethan Bierlein

00:03

Oh okay. Well, you can get better. I can wait. v0.2.0 is out, so we have time.

Annonomus Penguin

00:44

I can chat, but my brain is too fried to be productive

Ethan Bierlein

15:13

@AnnonomusPenguin Okay. I can do the coding for now.

Annonomus Penguin

15:48

@Ethan did we ever post on Reddit again?

Suggested title:

Cactus: A Game Engine for Building Zork-Style Text Games [Feedback and Alpha Testers Wanted]

What do you think?

Ethan Bierlein

16:10

@AnnonomusPenguin Sure. Sounds good to me.

Annonomus Penguin

@EthanBierlein Do you want me to post it or do you want to?

Ethan Bierlein

I'm on mobile right now, so if you could do it that'd be great. If not, I can do it later.

Annonomus Penguin

@Ethan reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/comments/3dykd6/…

Ethan Bierlein

I guess we're the only two developers now.

Annonomus Penguin

:/

I hope this Reddit post brings a bit of traffic.

We need to promote this better. We should make example games, maybe?

Ethan Bierlein

16:18

Hmm, yeah. I'm not good at stories though, so I might have a friend do one for me...

Annonomus Penguin

We just need something to show users. Hmm... it'd be cool to port a game to JS so we can embed it on our site to give a demo

Ethan Bierlein

asm.js ftw!

@QPaysTaxes I'm really sorry to have to ping you, but this is the only way I could get ahold of you. Development on Cactus has started to resume, and I'm wondering if you're still interested in helping with the project.

Annonomus Penguin

@Ethan did you just upvote Reddit, or did someone else?

Ethan Bierlein

Someone else.

Annonomus Penguin

!!!

Ethan Bierlein

16:21

We just got a comment on the thing you posted. Lemme go boot up my laptop

Annonomus Penguin

Oooh!

Should we refer them to our chatroom?

Ethan Bierlein

Yes, and the site as well.

Okay, I just posted a comment.

Annonomus Penguin

Four upvotes?

Ethan Bierlein

I dunno, I can't see the vote count.

Oof, I wish I knew Haskell so I could answer this: codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/10123/…

@AnnonomusPenguin If you have a chance, could you write up some docs on the event handlers for 0.2.0? I'm not sure that I understand them well enough to write docs for them.

Duga

16:39

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom pushed commit 9fb1e1c9 to gh-pages: Fixed email addresses.

Ethan Bierlein

room topic changed to Discussion about Cactus: General discussion about Cactus: (github.com/ShearOfDoom/TextEngine); Specs: (docs.google.com/document/d/…); Website: (shearofdoom.github.io/Cactus); Subreddit: (reddit.com/r/CactusEngine). [++community-project] [++fun] [+devs] [+game-engines] [-crazy]

room topic changed to Discussion about Cactus: General discussion about Cactus: (github.com/ShearOfDoom/TextEngine); Specs: (docs.google.com/document/d/…); Website: (shearofdoom.github.io/Cactus); Subreddit: (reddit.com/r/CactusEngine). [+community-project] [+devs] [+fun] [+game-engines] [-crazy]

room topic changed to Discussion about Cactus: General discussion about Cactus: (github.com/ShearOfDoom/TextEngine); Specs: (docs.google.com/document/d/…); Website: (shearofdoom.github.io/Cactus); Subreddit: (reddit.com/r/CactusEngine). [+community-project] [+fun] [+game-engines] [-crazy]

Duga

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom pushed commit f7196bb2 to master: Updated changelog.

Ethan Bierlein

Oh man, I just realized something.

Annonomus Penguin

What?

Ethan Bierlein

Gimme a sec to build an example

If we defined our __init__ methods and prefixed all the arguments with a *, it would force the user to use the named parameters.

For example, if I did this:

def add(*, a, b):
    return a + b

It would force the user to type something like this:

print(add(a=10, b=10))

And it would throw an error if the user tries to type this:

print(add(10, 20))

Which means that we can get rid of the nasty dictionary class_data validation.

Annonomus Penguin

16:55

Hmm...

That would force types then again, right?

Ethan Bierlein

Yup, I could type def add(*, a: float, b: float)

Annonomus Penguin

And then they could manually modify the variables... hmm... I don't think this should be made for 0.2.1

0.3.0 already?

Ethan Bierlein

I'm thinking it's a 0.3.0 feature, we still need to get some testers to find issues to fix.

Feeds

18:46

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Duga

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom added label enhancement to issue #55: Removing ugly class_data validation and using required named parameters.

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom opened issue #55: Removing ugly class_data validation and using required named parameters.

> Rather than having a `class_data` variable, we can used forced named parameters, like this:

def add(*, a, b):
return a + b

And force the user to type something like this:

add(a=2, b=2)

Making the coding process *even* cleaner and clearer.

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom added label bug to issue #55: Removing ugly class_data validation and using required named parameters.

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom assigned ShearOfDoom to issue #55: Removing ugly class_data validation and using required named parameters.

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom added label wontfix to issue #42: Implement colorama

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom unassigned ShearOfDoom from issue #42: Implement colorama

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom closed issue #42: Implement colorama

Duga

19:15

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] IAmRasputin forked us into IAmRasputin/Cactus

Duga

20:36

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] fazo96 starred us

Duga

22:24

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] Annonomus-Penguin commented on issue #42: Implement colorama

> @ShearOfDoom why is this [wontfix]?

Duga

22:47

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] ShearOfDoom commented on issue #42: Implement colorama

> @Annonomus-Penguin I attempted an implementation, but it failed miserably. You can try if you want to.

[ShearOfDoom/Cactus] MaskedRetriever starred us

Ethan Bierlein

Wow, we iz getting lotz-o-stars

And lotz-o-views

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The Cactus Game Engine