Sorry for the very long delay.

Done.

On 9/8/07, Gustavo gugamilare@gmail.com wrote:

Well, I believe the "Planet of the Feebs" is a well-known project made for begginers. But it has many problems:

• The project is not active, and really old;
• The documentation is not 100% compatible with the code;
• Graphics are displayed only in X Window System in a black-and-white poor

style;

• There are about 2000 lines of code in a single file! (Well, it's old and

probably there wasn't ASDF at that time);

• The code for the graphics is complex (it looks like written in C!) and (I

believe) represents about 75% of the number of lines;

• Whenever someone makes a feeb "brain", he or she needs to test for every

element of the "vision" (or of the "proximity" structure) whether it is a single element or a list (why not the convention that every element is a list?);

• No help for newbies (the project is mainly directed to them);

...

Well, I started to make a project called "The Feebs War" (based on the code of "Planet of the Feebs") that is intended to correct its problems, with:

• A graphical interface (using lispbuilder), supporting that you choose the

graphics of your own feeb;

• An easier way to make a feeb brain intended to help lisp newbies;
• A more complete and direct-to-the-point manual;
• Implementation of some features that the original manual points but the

code doesn't have;

• More global parameters;

...

The graphical interface is not ready yet, but there is already a way to display a game (printing the map in text mode), and it works quite well... But I need a place to put the project, and this version, so more advanced users could see the code and point some mistakes (I am a begginer, I am 20 and have about 1 year of lisp), and later anyone can get the 1.0 version and learn lisp, a place where people can put their feeb, and maybe some contests to see who can make the best feeb...

Here are more information of the project:

• Project: The Feebs War
• License: GPL
• Repository: Subversion (I would like to have svn, I believe it is better,

and I already use it)

• Developer: Gustavo Henrique Milare gugamilare@gmail.com (just myself for

now)

• Public Key: it is attached (I have just created it for this purpose).

If you have any questions, just let me know.

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