ludic/examples
Orkuncakilkaya 808c4a6f7a feat(lang): 0.R1 - actions and reducers
action Name { fields } is a typed record; reducer State on Action(s: mut State, a: Action) { ... }
in the module that owns the state takes exactly that state and the action (a second state is
refused); dispatch Action { fields } queues one from anywhere, the queue supplied by the runtime.
The queue is drained at the end of every phase of the frame loop, after every phase of ludic.base's
core_tick_all, and by drain_actions(): in dispatch order, each action's reducers in the order of
their states' names, an action a reducer dispatches queued behind, a queue still growing after 64
rounds stopped with the action named. Examples actions/pack, phases, runaway; rejects for a second
state, a reducer on a non-action and an unknown dispatch; ludic.base's actions_test; LANGUAGE.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 19:13:46 +03:00
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actions feat(lang): 0.R1 - actions and reducers 2026-09-25 19:13:46 +03:00
ecs refactor(runtime,packages,examples): named constants, package enums, idiom sweep 2026-09-05 01:12:26 +03:00
events wip(0.S3): packages and examples migrated again from their pre-0.S sources in one run 2026-09-25 15:31:34 +03:00
functions wip(0.S3): packages and examples migrated again from their pre-0.S sources in one run 2026-09-25 15:31:34 +03:00
games wip(0.S3): packages and examples migrated again from their pre-0.S sources in one run 2026-09-25 15:31:34 +03:00
lang wip(0.S3): packages and examples migrated again from their pre-0.S sources in one run 2026-09-25 15:31:34 +03:00
library wip(0.S3): packages and examples migrated again from their pre-0.S sources in one run 2026-09-25 15:31:34 +03:00
modules wip(0.S3): packages and examples migrated again from their pre-0.S sources in one run 2026-09-25 15:31:34 +03:00
networking examples: net_sync's raw buffer inside unsafe, now that a query's body is checked 2026-09-25 14:43:23 +03:00
rejected feat(lang): 0.R1 - actions and reducers 2026-09-25 19:13:46 +03:00
rendering feat(lang): 0.S - components take states in their header; migrate writes them, never inside a name, never outside the programs given, never into a package's state 2026-09-25 17:11:15 +03:00
state feat(lang): 0.S - components take states in their header; migrate writes them, never inside a name, never outside the programs given, never into a package's state 2026-09-25 17:11:15 +03:00
README.md refactor(cli)!: split the contributor tool out of the ludic CLI 2026-09-05 23:15:12 +03:00

Examples

A curated tour of Ludic, grouped by intent. Every example here is exercised by the test suite (bin/ludic-dev test / bin/ludic-dev selfhost-test), so nothing in this directory silently rots.

Run any program straight from the repository root (so assets/ resolves):

bin/ludic build examples/games/snake.ludic              # compile + open a real window
bin/ludic build examples/games/snake.ludic --headless   # render one frame to build/out.ppm
bin/ludic examples/lang/offline_rewards.ludic     # compile + run a plain program

games/ — complete, windowed games

Example What it shows
games/snake.ludic A full game from primitives: input, grid, growth, collision, score.
games/menu.ludic A retained-UI title screen — the UI declared as data.
games/chronorift.ludic A 2D co-op JRPG: overworld, dungeon, random encounters, turn battle, boss, save. The entry file imports the modules under games/chronorift/.

rendering/ — drawing primitives

Example What it shows
rendering/draw_prims.ludic The extended Screen.* primitives — line, circle, triangle, fill, sprite.

ecs/ — the entity-component world

Example What it shows
ecs/hello.ludic The smallest program that exercises the ECS pipeline.
ecs/world_get.ludic Reflection: read/write a component by name.
ecs/world_scan.ludic Reflection: scan the world and identify each entity.
ecs/world_query.ludic Reflection: iterate the world by property.
ecs/world_spawn.ludic Reflection: a mod spawns a fresh entity by model id.
ecs/world_mixed.ludic Reflection: get/set through real struct offsets.
ecs/world_dyn.ludic Reflection: register a brand-new component at runtime.

events/ — the event bus

Example What it shows
events/events.ludic EV0: the event-bus core — declare, emit, @On.
events/mod_events.ludic Two listeners on one event, driven from a mod.
events/cancel.ludic EV3: cancellable (decision) events.
events/recurse.ludic EV6: re-entrant emit is depth-bounded — no runaway cycle.
events/promote.ludic EV1: @Public promotes a lifecycle hook to a public event.
events/prop_events.ludic EV1 for properties: attach/detach events.
events/scene_events.ludic EV1 for scenes: on-enter / on-exit events.
events/program_events.ludic EV1 for the program scope: start/quit events.
events/layer_events.ludic EV1 for layers + a public layer's show/hide events.
events/scoped.ludic A despawned entity drops out of subsequent event work.

networking/ — deterministic multiplayer (N0–N6)

Each maps to a stage of the Networking design; all run over the compiler's built-in loopback transport with zero foreign code.

Example What it shows
networking/net_echo.ludic N0: the transport seam.
networking/net_snapshot.ludic N1: whole-world snapshot to a memory buffer.
networking/net_sync.ludic N2: @Sync replication codegen.
networking/net_owner.ludic N3: entity ownership.
networking/net_rpc.ludic N4: remote events / RPCs.
networking/net_roles.ludic N5: handler roles + the drivable sim.
networking/net_demo.ludic N6: a networked game end to end, in pure Ludic.
networking/net_rt.ludic A blessed server-authoritative replication runtime.

lang/ — language & standard-library tour

Example What it shows
lang/annotations.ludic The annotation-first style: @Queries / @Computed / @OnSpawn / @Handles.
lang/qdecl.ludic @Queries desugaring to the query system.
lang/lifecycle.ludic The whole game lifecycle as @-hooks, in firing order.
lang/detach.ludic Structural attach/detach + @OnAttach / @OnDetach.
lang/reason.ludic Reason-carrying teardown (@OnDespawn: Despawned vs Quit).
lang/toggle.ludic enable/disable at the three ECS scopes.
lang/scenes.ludic One active scene at a time, handlers grouped into layers.
lang/strings.ludic Strings as values: compare, join, interpolate, slice.
lang/operators.ludic Compound assignment on every type, unary minus, char escapes, list literals.
lang/rng_demo.ludic The Random.* extensions (value/int/sign).
lang/time_demo.ludic Time.frame / elapsed / delta.
lang/offline_rewards.ludic A worked idle-game example over the Time/Date/Duration stdlib.

library/ — building and linking a shared library

A how-to for compiling a .ludic module to a native .dylib/.so/.dll and linking a second program against it via extern fn:

bin/ludicc examples/library/combat.ludic --shared -o build/libcombat.dylib
bin/ludicc examples/library/arena.ludic  -o build/arena -Lbuild -lcombat
Example What it shows
library/combat.ludic Exported functions callable across the C ABI.
library/arena.ludic A program that links against the shared library.