Odin + Raylib: Snake game from start to finish

[@karl_zylinski]

I've written a book about Odin: odinbook.com/ ✨-- One way you can learn the language is by first following this tutorial video and after that reading the book.

[@jakubtomsu]

Very cool, love to see a tutorial to make an entire game from start to finish

[@joyousblunder]

do you have any beginner tutorials like this for sokol to recommend?

[@fsouza]

Thanks!

[@karl_zylinski]

Thanks a lot 😻

[@sandrthomas]

I've never tried Odin or Raylib. But thanks to your videos I’m planning OdinWeek 💯

[@karl_zylinski]

Thanks! Good luck on the OdinWeek 😺

[@nicklansbury3166]

All this in only 195 lines of code. Unsurprising that ODIN is so popular for making games. Great video, thanks

[@distant6606]

I think its mostly because of how simple raylib is, you would get similar results if you wrote the code in a similar fashion in a language like cpp. Though odin does provide some nice abstractions compared to smth like c, there is not a lot of difference with cpp. I would even argue you have a lot more features useful for gamedev in cpp than in odin.

[@billowers8649]

This is all really helpful content for someone starting out, you're doing a great community service (as usual!)

[@HairyPixels]

Something so satisfying about low tech game dev. Really enjoyed it, thanks for sharing.

[@kodosunofficial_5]

34:01 this technique is called sliding window and it's so efficient, big brain ideas karl !!!

[@oldteen2]

Great tutorial ! I just want to discover Odin and this video is a good start. Thanks ! I just bought your game on steam, I'm looking forward to playing

[@karl_zylinski]

Thank you!

[@shadownight2248]

This was quite fun. It was very easy to follow and I learnt a good chunk about odin

[@karl_zylinski]

Happy to hear that. Have a nice day!

[@distant6606]

Good stuff!

[@art9518]

thanks for this it was a great help

[@andreadimonda5985]

Hi nice tut, so can you make a little tutorial on how make text based adventure game??

[@jhtakalo]

Good stuff!

[@cycomkid]

Compile this for web, possible?

[@karl_zylinski]

I haven't tried it, but you could look into this stuff, perhaps it is possible: github.com/Caedo/raylib_wasm_odin

[@kodosunofficial]

I have question, if i implement rpg, that have level 1 to level 10, how do i handle level transitions and cutscenes? Thanks

[@karl_zylinski]

Hi.
You can make a "Level" struct and change which Level struct you are currently using. So then you have one such struct per Level. The struct can contains tiles, object or whatever yo want your level to consist of.
As for cutscenes, you can add a 'Play_State' enum and have one value that is 'Playing' and one that is 'Cutscene'. Then in the cutscene case you can write special code for moving around characters etc.
Or if you by cutscene just mean 'dialogue', then you can have some special 'Dialogue' play state, and then you can save some variables with who you are talking to and what the current dialogue options are.
These are just some ideas, there are many ways to accomplish this.

[@kodosunofficial]

@@karl_zylinski thanks!!! My own approach is treat level and cutscenes as a function, and use recursion to handle level transtition, but recursion it's quite slow so i'm looking for alternative approach.

[@tea_otomo]

Enjoyed this a lot. I'm doing C# for more than 15 years, I think I finally found something I can enjoy.

[@dont-be-hasty]

Link to the assets seems to be broken.

[@karl_zylinski]

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know.