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EPISODE · Jan 11, 2020 · 1H 4M

Elm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents

from Elm Town · host Kevin Yank

Martin Stewart tells the behind-the-scenes story of how his game Circuit Breaker (built entirely in Elm, of course) came to be, starting with an ambitious plan to surprise his sister on her birthday. Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 5 Jan 2020 Guest Martin Stewart (https://tretton37.com/meet/martin-stewart) Show Notes 00:00:00 Intro and sponsors 00:02:37 How Martin got into Elm 00:05:14 C#/WPF to Elm tretton37 00:07:05 Getting started in Elm 00:07:44 Remaking Lego Loco / server-side logic Lego Loco remake (GitHub) Lego Loco (Wikipedia) 00:11:29 “I was allergic to using case statements” 00:14:10 The origin of Circuit Breaker 00:17:57 A brief description of Circuit Breaker Circuit Breaker / source code 00:19:45 The original “hackman” prototype 00:21:30 The level editor 00:23:08 SVG to WebGL / presentation framework Elm Town 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo sthlm.js #53 at tretton37 (meetup event) Stockholm Elm: Catchy Elm meetup title (meetup event) WebGL for Elm Martin's C# game engine / video demo 00:30:27 Hacking around Elm WebGL's limitations 00:38:45 Ready for his sister's birthday 00:40:16 Polishing Circuit Breaker full time between clients Circuit Breaker with Elm logo colour scheme 00:42:13 Deterministic except for floating point precision 00:44:07 The game's tutorial 00:47:49 Hidden features and Easter Eggs 00:49:50 Splitting a project into modules 00:53:22 Music in the game Meganeko Lain Volta 00:54:59 Playing music in Elm Crypt of the Necrodancer 00:58:30 Thankyous & Outro elm-ui elm-geometry

Martin Stewart tells the behind-the-scenes story of how his game Circuit Breaker (built entirely in Elm, of course) came to be, starting with an ambitious plan to surprise his sister on her birthday.

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