[L2Ork-dev] L2Ork-dev Digest, Vol 115, Issue 6

[Nathan J Paek]

Hi Jonathan,


Thanks for your reply! Question about the demo game - could the visuals / game be implemented with something like Unity, and Purr Data utilized for the audio? Did some research on the pd graphics library GEM and it gave me a couple ideas, but mostly in the realm of video effects or evolving live visualizers (though it seems like some people have been able to do some really impressive things haha https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/4201/game-engine-with-pd-gem). Where should I be looking to think about an interactive game?


Also for future reference would this be the best place to run specific ideas (proposal drafts) I have by you?


Cheers,

Nathan


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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:44:27 +0000
From: Nathan J Paek <nathanjp at stanford.edu>
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Hello Purr Data community !


(So sorry if this message gets sent twice, I realized I had not joined the mailing list)


My name is Nathan. I?m an undergrad at Stanford University studying computer science and music. I have experience in C, C++, and Python. I?m new to open source! As a musician and music technology lover, I am interested in contributing to Purr Data this summer, particularly either the ?Build Some Demo Games for New Users? project or the ?Terminal REPL? project. For the first - while I haven?t worked in Purr Data before, I am familiar with audio programming languages such as ChucK and Max from several project-based classes I?ve taken that use these. What would be some good steps to get started thinking about making a good demo?


For the REPL project, could you point me toward the modules or components in the GitHub repository that might serve as a foundation for developing the REPL?


Really glad to be here and I hope I may be able to contribute something meaningful!


-Nathan

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:20:38 -0400
From: Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [L2Ork-dev] Introduction!
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Hello Nathan,

Welcome!

If you've worked in Max before, you'll have an idea of the basic
structure of patches in Purr Data. The biggest difference is that the
UI in Purr Data/Pd is much more spartan than Max, and there isn't
anything quite like Max's "Presentation Mode" that can be used to
hide/show the parts of the diagram that aren't user interaction
widgets. However, if the game logic is centered around audio
input/output, you could keep the visual controls quite simple--
perhaps just audio on/off, volume, and a few others to show the
player's score/etc.

As for the REPL-- this depends on how you'd want to do it. Off the top
of my head-- something simple for typing commands and getting output
on the command line might be able to just hook into Pd's polling
mechanism, which is used for the current GUI<->audio_engine
communication. You could grep for sys_addpollfn to see how to add
callbacks to the polling mechanism.

-Jonathan

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:45?PM Nathan J Paek <nathanjp at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello Purr Data community !
>
>
> (So sorry if this message gets sent twice, I realized I had not joined the mailing list)
>
>
> My name is Nathan. I?m an undergrad at Stanford University studying computer science and music. I have experience in C, C++, and Python. I?m new to open source! As a musician and music technology lover, I am interested in contributing to Purr Data this summer, particularly either the ?Build Some Demo Games for New Users? project or the ?Terminal REPL? project. For the first - while I haven?t worked in Purr Data before, I am familiar with audio programming languages such as ChucK and Max from several project-based classes I?ve taken that use these. What would be some good steps to get started thinking about making a good demo?
>
>
> For the REPL project, could you point me toward the modules or components in the GitHub repository that might serve as a foundation for developing the REPL?
>
>
> Really glad to be here and I hope I may be able to contribute something meaningful!
>
>
> -Nathan
>
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