Well that was a short lived project. After a month of development, the Mars Lander project is already ‘dead’. So why did it die so quickly? It seems to suffer the same fate as many beginning open source projects that I’ve come across. You can’t just ‘wing it’. If you don’t have a plan, goals or direction on where you want a project to go then it will ultimately fail by indecision....
I’ve been meaning to get back into some game programming again, but I didn’t fell like starting doing something new. I wanted to help someone else and join a project and be part of a team again (kind of like when I was working on pioneer space sim). This weekend I came across a post on the LÖVE game development forums. It is a game being written that is loosely based on a the 1979 Atari classic Lunar Lander but with a Mars Lander theme....
Recently I have gotten back into doing some coding again, in particular, using the LÖVE framework and the language lua to make simple 2D based games. While I’ve played with other game engines such as Unity and Godot (Godot is my favorite right now) I just seem to prefer writing everything in scripts and code rather than messing around with an graphical editor. Code Editor Normally I would use vim, but I just couldn’t get the workflow working how I liked it....