Custom 2D Game Engine Devlog 2

[@shaps]

Hey guys! Really love seeing you and your dad in these videos. I’m a dad with 2 boys myself and also a veteran developer and it’s lovely to see the relationship you guys have. I’ve actually worked on Xcode, playgrounds and other tools for . Many many open source projects (including the swift language), client products and approaching 40 years of developing (started when I was 6) Yet I have to say I’ve never done game dev and you have massively inspired me to get started. I’m also gonna work on a game engine to learn how they work deeply, calling it Chronicle. I will eventually open source it but it’s early days. I’m also starting with  + windows support but it’s 100% Swift. Anyway thank you for re-inspiring my lifelong love of writing code and creating things. Best of luck with your own engine! Side note: GPT is great for productivity, as a professional developer I can tell you it’s used every day in small pieces. But you’re right that it gets things wrong. Over time you just get better at asking smaller questions. It’s a very iterative process, much like dev itself. Also most pros don’t use stack overflow because it’s equally full of bad information. It’s a necessary evil I guess when you’re first learning but just be careful not to over trust the information as it’s generally stuff worth forgetting. Anyway take that advice with a grain of salt. Keep up the great work! (Both of you)

[@JordanGrantDev]

Wow thats awesome thanks for the great feedback! The goal of the channel is to inspire, create joy and teach at the same time (hopefully 😂) and fooling around at the same time, all the best with Chronicle.

[@errant_egg]

audio a bit quiet. love these videos. a follow up vid on adapting the engine to support isometric graphics would be really interesting

[@JordanGrantDev]

Thanks for the feedback, I will try make the audio a bit louder in future, and yes the plan always was to add a isometric tile map system, so expect that in a future update!

[@errant_egg]

@@JordanGrantDev thank you for the reply! Do you have any goals in terms of platforms you’d like to support with your engine?

[@JordanGrantDev]

@@errant_eggIOS, MacOS, and TvOS, But for now I will be focusing mainly on MacOS for simplicity's sake. Thanks for the question

[@umapessoa6051]

Looking great, keep up the great work!

[@JordanGrantDev]

Thanks :)

[@luthecoder]

I heard totsiens at the end of the video I presume you guys are also in South Africa!!🇿🇦 I too am a developer here currently building my own custom engine

[@JordanGrantDev]

Awesome, Yes I am South African I hope your engine building is going well. And by the way what programming language are you using for the engine?

[@luthecoder]

@@JordanGrantDev thank you very much I’m also still learning how to build engines but I’m using C programming language to build it

[@takikirouani9123]

smart girl

[@JordanGrantDev]

Your right on the first part 🤣