Toy night sky written in the "freewheeling" style that can be modified without being restarted
This app shows a very simple animation of a rotating night sky containing some twinkling stars with a subtle oscillation between day and night. It's intended as an example app for playing with the the driver app.
There's some reference documentation if you're inspired to create your own apps.
Invocation
Run this app from the terminal, passing its directory to LÖVE
Hacking
To modify it live without restarting the app each time, download the driver app. An example session might look like this (though the UI of the driver app on the left is improving over time):
To publish your changes:
- delete all files with a numeric prefix from the repo, and then
- move all files with a numeric prefix from the save directory to the repo.
Known issues
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This approach puts one top-level definition per file, and so obscures the order in which definitions are loaded. In particular, initializing a global table to contain other global definitions will fail if you originally authored the other global definitions after the table.
I never initialize global tables with other definitions. That kind of thing happens in
on.initialize(akin tolove.load; see reference.md) oron.code_change. -
Don't start the driver app while multiple freewheeling apps are running. If you have a driver app running with one app, shut it down before you switch apps.
Mirrors and Forks
Updates to this repo can be downloaded from:
- https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/night.love
Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here.