07-31, 13:10–13:20 (UTC), Red Track
Game development is a great way to attract beginner programmers. However, they are often dissuaded by the accidental complexity. In this talk, I will show how to easily create a simple game without any framework overheads.
Every child who starts programming wants to build games. Evidence of this can be seen in the popularity of block-based languages like Scratch. However, once they move to text-based languages (such as Julia), they struggle with the overheads of game development libraries, rather than being able to simply express their ideas in code. In this talk, I will demonstrate how to build simple games without the difficulties of low-level game-development frameworks, using GameZero.jl, a Julia library inspired by the Pygame Zero package. The talk will describe the library through the use of a series of examples that progressively build games from the simple to the more complicated.
I am a 14-year-old student, currently attending the City of London School. I have always had a deep interest in programming, first starting with Scratch when I was quite young, then moving onto Python, then finally, a few years ago, Julia. I have since presented at JuliaCon 2018 and 2019 and therefore have some experience with the language.