Taylor Open Source Game Engine

Taylor Open Source Game Engine

Sean Earle

I'm an Australian ruby developer who loves to make games which is why I'm building Taylor! Taylor is a small, free, and open source game engine designed to be easy to use, cross platform, and to boost developer happiness

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Count Releases 0 Commits 9 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 0 Issues closed 0 At a Glance Taylor's Five Year Anniversary It's been five whole years since I started Taylor Refactored Taylor's Config handling Noticed this area was...
At a Glance Intro What Does this Mean How do I Participate Outro Intro After much hinting, faffing about, and being worried about having to be a community manager a golden opportunity fell into my lap! Javier reached out to me to discuss...
Intro This is going to be a long rambling post about the past five years of Taylor. Be prepared for it not to be well edited and for my thoughts to jump around a bit. I thought about making this a video but life has not been kind...
Count Releases 0 Commits 26 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 0 Issues closed 0 At a Glance Jumpy Alien Community Site Jumpy Alien I spent some time this month and finished polishing off the Jumpy Alien example! The final touches ended...
Count Releases 0 Commits 1 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 1 Issues closed 1 At a Glance A Wild Email Appears Jumpy Alien Community Site A Wild Email Appears I received an email about Taylor! Someone noticed a bug on the playground...
Count Releases 1 Commits 7 Contributors 2 Pull requests merged 6 Issues closed 0 Stars 123 At a Glance Taylor v0.4.1 Released Website Updates Switched to LocalCI clang-format Update Jumpy Alien Example Began Redesigning taylor squash...
Taylor version v0.4.0 has been out for a while and I didn’t want to bring too much attention to it since it was the massive redesign that took over two years. Instead, I released it quietly and used it myself to see if there were any...
Too Long; Won’t Read The short, sharp, and shiny of it all is docker containers usually run as root, so when you mount your local file system to it, it writes files as root to your machine. This bugs me and causes issues. The fix is to...
Installation Linux Follow the instructions here for your distribution, I strongly recommend using the server instructions and not using Docker Desktop. I’ll explain further down below why that is. Windows/OSX You’ll want to grab Docker...
What’s all this about tracking? This post is mostly a heads up that I’ve setup some self hosted analytics using Plausible which describes itself as: Plausible is lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant...
Why With Heroku dropping the free tier from their service I decided to make better use of the “server” I have sitting in my home office. My current system was to just boot docker containers in the background with --restart...
This post is all about how to scrape the web with Ruby. I’ll be covering the four main ways to interact with the webserver and get the data you want. Best Case Scenario This is the absolute dream, you don’t need anything outside of the...
Intro First things first, what is Crystal and why am I talking about it at a ruby meetup? Well it’s a programming language released in 2014 that claims to be as fast as C and as slick as Ruby. Big claims right? I was pretty skeptical...
The idea It was a day like any other, scrolling through random tech articles while I wait for support requests to come through. That’s how I stumbled across the canvas tag new to HTML5. That’s when everything clicked, the gears started...
There was a little bit of a self inflicted hurdle getting this site hosted on S3. But first, how this issue came to be. The Beginning The domain oeQuacki is actually from my very first serious web project, a forum with a html5 drawing...
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