How I Made a Game in React Native

try voidpet dungeon:
ios: apps.apple.com...
android: play.google.co...
voidpet.com/
book: handsofgreed.com/
#benawad #voidpet
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[@officialabdulrehman]

The guy who shows up once in a blue moon, announces something and then dissappears for eternity xD

[@NedimRifatbegovic]

The Avatar 😂

[@r-i-ch]

If you like, I'm sure, it's easier for him to not show up at all. Personally, I'm grateful.

[@TomDoesTech]

He'll drop a 13 hour tutorial next

[@kris2010able]

😂

[@dangerousangel777]

He knows you don’t deserve him

[@SuboptimalEng]

Most game devs use Unity or Unreal, but Ben is just a chill guy who made a game in React Native

[@verawat]

me too.

[@User948Z7Z-w7n]

It's a turn based app so it doesn't need to be hyper fast using dedicated Game engine

[@NeetCode]

Hell yeah, let's go Big Ben

[@mrodawg2470]

small ben

[@DetectiveConan990v3]

whats up navdeep

[@ilkrsrc081]

I actually love this type content, it would be great to hear more about this kind of actual product development. Ben is one of the few developers who actually create something with programming and not just talking about architecture, clean code and shit

[@xdevolution_6287]

Mad respect for building a game with React Native! Impressive!

[@wlockuz4467]

I love Ben. He doesn't get stuck in the hell of picking the right tech for the job, he simply builds what he wants, with the thing he knows well.

[@galaxies_dev]

Up for recording a podcast episode next year Ben? Love your apps ✌️

[@bawad]

Sure

[@kwekukilu2196]

So nice seeing Ben again on my feed

[@redskater42]

Dude, this is so sick. You are a legend of YT tech content.

[@bruhbruhbruh7330]

It's cool that you founded your own team and are trying to break into the mobile game market; in which I wish you good luck! I remember watching your videos years ago and it's great to see that you're still uploading. It's also crazy how vastly different the paths are that you and Nick White ended up taking.

[@kiprasmel]

we're so back

[@esquilo_atomico]

ben is running his company on svgs, react native and crazy figma people

[@jatinhemnani1029]

oh he's alive

[@olutomiwaademola4733]

😆

[@Badadodadoop]

Good job getting this project off the ground. I hope it will be a success 🙏

[@michael.knight]

Cool game, but a mental health app and lootbox and sketchy mobile game reward mechanics kind of seem like opposites though?

[@Gtex555]

the mental health angle is just a trap , are you new here or something ?

[@iamacoder8331]

If you want mental health then go outside and talk to people.

[@chrisvouga8832]

The vocal fry is crazy

[@elieghanimeh02]

couldn't listen for more than 5 mins tbh

[@hichamzaidi1402]

Finally you found your KZbin password.

[@darellthompson8290]

Ben has posted. The world is finally healing.

[@mattpen7966]

actually interested in this, most "game" like thing ive made in React was a networked Rock Paper Scissors game. I always wondered what a larger scale game would look like

[@rococococoa]

This actually inspired me to restart work in my game to add in animations.

[@AaronAsherRandall]

As a Unity dev, I remember first reading the React docs and being like, “Whoa, you could make pretty complex games with this!”. I wish there were more resources for learning game dev with React, React Native, TypeScript etc.

[@knowledgestories9715]

Is it possible to use React Native and C# Unity "together" to create powerful mobile games? You are unity dev so I'm asking you please help.

[@jaden3533]

super impressed by your guys' work, its surprisingly pretty game-like, just please get some less generic sounding music, sounds like im stuck in an ad and the transitions between tracks or the same tracks are a little jarring

[@snwdn]

Good to know about the react profiler. I use Zustand in my project too and I know it is causing unnecessary rerenders everywhere. Not a huge issue right now but nice to know there is a tool to deal with it.

[@Saver174HowTo]

Wait, what? I actually use Zustand to fix the "unnecessary rerenders everywhere". You are probably watching/consuming the whole state (instead of just the parts you need) or use it somewhere higher in the tree which causes your rerenders in the children components, no?

[@mik3lang3lo]

Using react native is just wild, time to decompile and take a look ❤

[@pranavgoel29]

Chill guy doing chill things

[@CardinalHijack]

This void pet arc is mad. I thought it would have died years ago

[@coherentpanda7115]

Linda's book looks very interesting, over 300+ pages of lore! She is very talented, much like yourself with programming. Congrats on the new game, hope you continue to find success! I hate mobile gaming, but I'll install any game from Ben and his team!

[@BlackVoz]

I'm building a react game too, it's with my backend friend. and for real, it looks same like this and works same, with various of rewards and gameplay and points. premium/coin/gems. I thought it's quite common to make a game because it felt easy when I coded. I never did an internship or anything. it's the first app of my life. a game. first real-life project.

[@lostinthenarrativve]

Any plans on creating a Web development course Ben ?

[@looyd]

Do Business Side of Void-pet. Whats has it been like? I think that would be super fun

[@basketberoende]

Nice seeing you again. See you next year

[@hit3894]

With React Native JSI and React compiler the game will be even more performant.

[@YoannBuzenet]

How many devs are you in the team Ben ? Well done for the work, you and your team

[@TheIpicon]

would be nice to upload a video without a screen recorder, because I can't understand if the game runs smooth at all due to the recording lag.

[@severedghost]

Thats awesome, I've been making a trading game for my friends and I with react native

[@ashrafuzzamankhalid3465]

Hey ben. Can you create a video about... "How we can truly learn and understand programming and make progress with practicing a certain toolset"

[@romanjuilliot1479]

Funny how I developped my first game last month using react & rive, thinking to myself this stack & DX is actually awesome and wondering why more devs arent leaning towards rive + react workflows

[@yazeedalhhimali5787]

why didn't you use flutter flame

[@jacoboreilly3601]

I see you're now on the Devon Crawford posting schedule!

[@migoy]

I did work in a react native project before that loaded unity apps and have a bridge API for communication

[@Norfeldt]

I'm wondering if the new expo "use dom" would work for some of the animations?

[@marijnstapert9036]

first, also nice to see your still active

[@roycechua]

Good to see a new Ben video. Feels like a time skip arc just happened

[@r-i-ch]

What is the #1 book? Would you go React Native again if you had to start from scratch?

[@pablomolero3856]

so whats your favorite book then? we need to know

[@willmakk]

Oh, yeah, I'm subbed to this guy.

[@anuragpramanik6095]

Are you using expo development builds?

[@sn-xc7rv]

so we're not getting any tutorials anytime soon?

[@NeerajSSinghButola]

for having better performance , wouldnt the flutter framework be better for this usecase ?

[@matthewvaccaro8877]

I wonder if it would have been easier to learn the game engine and use all the built ins that come with Unity

[@SonAyoD]

Amazing work and update

[@nehushtant]

That boy Ben aw yeah

[@WarSTRIKER1299]

Babe wake up Ben posted

[@floodo1]

actually impressive. I know the shower after this video felt good lol

[@tejasahluwalia8713]

I'm a web developer who jumped into Godot. Easiest thing ever. Game engines are sick.

[@meyn6161]

Apart from Hands of Greed, what's your top 3 fantasy books?

[@SogMosee]

Do you think the react compiler in react 19 will help with performance automatically going forward?

[@1k0nx]

all yours big bro 🙌

[@AthenaMakes]

Curious to know what database are you using?

[@Tramontano_T]

This reminds me of Adventure Quest, ngl

[@ragerx609]

Bro finally remembered his yt password 😂

[@esquilo_atomico]

good job mr awad!

[@Demonnof]

good insights thanks

[@RayenMnif]

cool game but i think it need more animations especially for the fighting scenes

[@kohlod]

Is there a difference using lotties vs svg? And did you use Expo?

[@MikeyFlorensia]

This is really cool

[@dimitarkostov7113]

Lovely!

[@abdulrafayakber3798]

hey ben i was wondering if u can make a video om react native vs flutter vs native. For chat, ecommerce apps is react native the best choice?

[@TechPrepYT]

🐐

[@DerekIsAworker]

Love react native!!

[@PANKAJ-im3uo]

We want regular videos

[@interceptorghost1149]

Ben we want you to code in latest version of Next.js

[@bonenintomatensaus]

Keep golden hammering and someday you'll write a 3D application in React Native ; )

[@parimalTeK]

You are alive.

[@monarchgam3r]

This is insane

[@deificGashsaucer]

oh you’re alive?

[@dracula5752]

We need more videos

[@vinos1629]

But Why... Why would you not just do this in unity...

[@krtirtho]

You know what, u finally built a project, sticked to it and made it successful unlike ur other projects where you abandoned them halfway Still, for a game Flutter flame is better choice than react-native anyday. But I understand when you were building voidpet, there was no game engine for Flutter

[@kris2010able]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[@会供価]

dude why didnt u announce you got 800k in funding. congrats just found out about that

[@Neuvalence]

Ben really npm serve --face today

[@narekhovhannisyan6362]

please make new tutorials about react, react native

[@iamacoder8331]

Why did you even decided to put so much effort into such a game?

[@boredbytrash]

💰

[@KalosLikesComputers]

Hey look it's me

[@kersh2550]

Finally happening

[@johndorian473]

Time to start using the minoxidil+finasteride combo Ben. Just monitor your resting heart rate as minox tends to up the pulse

[@JSLegendDev]

Hey someone else who makes games with JS/TS!

[@abhijayrajvansh]

does that mean react native games is not optimised for android lol

[@SteveHazel]

now... ...are your eyebrows real?

[@Andrei_Calazans]

“Doesn’t work on Android” is a typical RN experience

[@puranogame]

excellet,but you look like jared leto smart(no hate)

[@abdulragib6004]

nice

[@tehillahville]

at this point just make a react native game engine

[@bod1k1]

yo

[@pr0fanator]

Looks like 10000 other games...

[@nitinrai6093]

!!!!!!!!

[@Armicking]

This looks like a worse version of Raid Shadow legends / Pokemon. And to say it is a Mental Health app is crazy

[@vagglord3156]

Ngnl .../.../.../.../.../ui triggered me xD, please make @ to be a root (src dir) path so you can @/ui/...

[@berrywarmer11]

🤷‍♂ it's probably an auto import / tab autocomplete done by Ben in VSCode. If he's the only developer he probably spends nearly zero time thinking about the structure of his file imports because of the nice auto importing from VSCode.

[@ra2enjoyer708]

Don't use "@" for import aliases.

[@vaclavkriz2509]

Your game looks very good however its similarly p2w to raid shadow legends maybe even more, which completely ruins my feeling and not gonna play like that