How I used low-code to build Lemmings!

[@LisaCrosbie]

Love so much about this, especially following your problem solving and thought process. The concept of choosing a passion project as a way of learning is such a great approach that clearly works at any level! But you’ve left me with nostalgia and a desire to go and find and play Lemmings now!

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you Lisa ☺️ I certainly had fun doing this one and that makes it soooo much easier to find the time to learn!

[@debajdu]

Has been a fan of your work since the first time I saw the Ribbon workbench tool and many more years down the line, your work still inspires me.

[@ScottDurow]

It was the 10 year anniversary of the Ribbon Workbench last year would you believe! Thank you for watching 😊

[@Stinow]

Looking for the edges of a language like this is so inspirational and *needed* for a language to evolve. Thank you Scott, will follow and will try some Pokemon game DIY in a Canvasapp myself 😁

[@tristangeoffroy9286]

Very impressed! I didn’t rush to view this video because gaming sounds out of my concerns. How wrong I was! This is a fascinating problem solving story, there is lot to learn from your way of working. Thank you very much. But Lisa said that better than me

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you Tristan - I really appreciate that ☺️

[@micro-scott]

Seeing this makes me think some fairly sophisticated charting could be done in a Canvas App either augmenting a chart control or going custom altogether. Thanks for showing the community what is possible!

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you for watching Scott ☺️ Definitely- I think you could do some very pretty charts with SVG - Perhaps it would be easier to use Power BI tiles embedded inside the app.

[@R2Power]

This is my new favourite PowerApps video!!! We have soooo many similiar ideas, but I don't think I would have worked out the 0s and 1s of the level with Mid(). Such a great job! Suggestion for the selection: combine the two techniques you showed. Sprites in one SVG in the back and transparent buttons in front for the selection part.

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you! I found that because I needed to be able to quickly update and read map bits, the string manipulation was the quickest. I did try using byte masking/arrays but the manipulation was slower and more complex in my tests. I guess there are lots of alternatives with pros and cons. I’ll definitely try using transparent buttons - I suspect that it might not perform any better since it would add the extra overhead of drawing the svg layer. I’ll let you know! Thank you again 🥰

[@R2Power]

@@ScottDurow probably not more performant, but you wouldn't need to create 20 containers. At the moment I'm experimenting a lot with galeries in front of SVGs, but my examples weren't moving :D

[@ScottDurow]

Sounds awesome - let’s us know how it goes 🚀

[@MortenSchouenborg]

You are my Power Apps Hero - what a great video!

[@ScottDurow]

You are my hero for watching and commenting 🤩

[@dayanidirajesh88]

As Lisa mentioned I loved your approach of tackling the problem..great work Scott.. Love your work 😊

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you Rajesh - I am so glad you enjoyed watching! ☺️

[@Malhosainy]

This is briliant, seemed impossible to me at first (looked like a clickbaite to be honest), but very very clever use of SVG, JSON and Mid. Well done, stay creative and keep sharing your ideas please!

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you Mohamed - very kind of you to say so! ☺️

[@moyura2]

Very cool, thank you for sharing.

[@Mglatje]

when do you sleep....? Amazing stuff. Love all your video's. So much to learn from. Thx for sharing

[@ScottDurow]

Hehe - getting enough sleep is the secret of course ☺️ thank you for and thank you for watching - glad you found it helpful!

[@richardparker2671]

Esta es una carta de amor para el uso profesional avanzado de Power Apps

[@ginowadakekalam]

Awesome! Never thought power apps can do that!😮

[@ScottDurow]

I didn’t think so at first either! 🚀 Thank you for watching

[@_PowerThomas]

Wow! This is next level!

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you Thomas! 🤩 now I really do need to implement that next level!!!

[@zoofboof9180]

Awesome! I love trying to make PowerApps do things it wasn't designed for.

[@zoofboof9180]

My philosophy has always been that if you can figure out how to build games in a new framework you can probably figure out how to make almost anything.

[@ScottDurow]

I very much subscribe to the same philosophy! Are there any interesting challenges you have had to overcome? Thank you for watching! 😊

[@zoofboof9180]

@@ScottDurow Worked out a couple games in PowerApps. Recently I have been working on a turn-based RPG that would take advantage of the power platform easy full stack deployment.

[@jdriele]

To prevent clippping with gallery, you must have 2 collections, one static as items of the collection and one dynamic tant will be read through a lookup.

[@MsRameshbhati]

This is an amazing Scott, how can we start with such learning ? Any tutorials ?

[@ScottDurow]

Thank you Ramesh! It was certainly fun! What topics are you interested in being covered in a tutorial?

[@NarutoUzumaki-n5y9z]

Can create video on pagination functionality Like first showing 50 Data then onclick of button loading next 50 and so on for like 150000 Data.....

[@rex25k]

Next, DOOM.

[@ScottDurow]

Now that would be pushing the boundaries!