Elm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents

Elm Town

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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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