Made a discord soundboard bot. Some simple text channel commands get the bot to join whatever voice channel you’re in and get the bot to display available sounds as buttons in the text channel. It actually works really well and sounds great.
My friends and I just wanted a bigger soundboard without having to pay for it.
I pretty much agree with everyone else said. I just want to say that I don’t recommend xamarin. I had to work with it at a job and it’s a massive headache imo.
I’ve mostly done hobby projects with rust.
axum + mongodb + oauth2 (just basic rest api)
rust-bert ( for some nlp stuff. Zero-shot, NER, etc.)
Bevy ( I was following a tutorial for a super basic space invaders game)
I chose rust because I always like to have some kind of systems level programming language on my belt. It used to be c++. Rust had seemed very interesting so I began trying it out more and more. It’s awesome.
I’m not a game dev, just a regular dev. I have experimented with Bevy though. The documentation is top notch and there are many examples, YouTube videos and guides for starting out. I followed one such guide that was essentially a space invaders clone. I switched out some of the assets so that it was my brother’s face shooting lasers, and sent it to him.
At my leisure pace, I finished the tutorial in about a week. I recommend giving it a try. Your first game doesn’t have to be perfect or even complete. My space invaders didn’t even have a background color.
This. I was reading through some of the comments, but this is the most accurate one I’ve read thus far. All the APIs I’ve dealt with are just vanilla HTTP and use a reverse proxy for https. A reverse proxy like nginx is also convenient for path pattern matching to different API services but only having to setup https in one spot, nginx