"Game Development in Elm: Build Your Own Tooling"

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Recreates a boids flocking simulation in Elm, adds a live inspector that edits floats, colors and a timescale at 60fps, and persists settings to localStorage as JSON. Uses a small schema file plus a generator script to emit decoders/encoders and Elm accessors so adding a field is one line. UI implements Elm Config UI controls with mouse-drag using the HTML5 pointer lock API via ports, and the tool works for rapid, type-safe tuning.

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" chapters (9)

1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:55Lessons from HyperCard
3. 3:31Switching to Elm
4. 5:05Designing with a spec
5. 7:17The problem with simulation
6. 11:08Improving the feedback loop
7. 14:12Introducing Elm config UI
8. 17:23Implementing the tool
9. 22:16Conclusion

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