lisp-game-dev March 2011

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11 participants
8 discussions

[lisp-game-dev] Introducing the all new: Resource-Tree™
by Jens Thiede 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Tired of managing hundreds of image files by hand? Managed enough sound clips to last you a lifetime? Then you need jtza8's Resource-Tree™! Haha ... well I wrote this small piece of code and found it very handy, so I thought someone else might as well. The README file should answer most questions. Hopefully, statistical spam filters don't mind infomercials. :) If you'd like, please let me know what you think. I'd appreciate any comments. https://github.com/jtza8/resource-tree

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[lisp-game-dev] org-babel
by Tyler Church 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Not too long ago, I ran across David's blog(http://lispgamesdev.blogspot.com/), more specifically the post on using org-babel for Literate Programming (http://lispgamesdev.blogspot.com/2010/07/literate-programming-with-common-l…) My first thought was "Oh man, I've gotta try this," and with a little time and frustration, I got org-babel working decently well. The game I'm working on right now is using org-babel, and I'm starting to like it, though there are still a few things that I want to change/add/mess with when I have time for it. So I have an open question: Has anyone else used org-babel to write code with? What have been your experiences with it? (commentary, tips, tricks, additions you've made, etc. would be nice to hear :) And to David directly: Are you still using org-babel since that last post? - Tyler

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Re: [lisp-game-dev] Hello Everybody!
by Tyler Church 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

On Mon, March 13, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Elliott Slaughter <elliottslaughter(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome! > > As you have observed, this list tends not to get much traffic. Most the traffic we do get is from David O'Toole's occasional Lisp games competitions. > > > I've been slowly working away on Thopter, and am hoping to do some sort of a release soonish. Depending on how much time I get, it might be a large or a small release. I just recently got commonqt/cl-smoke to work on my mac, so that may finally be an option for redoing the game's UI. > > In other news, Blackthorn (my game engine) is now available on Quicklisp. Quicklisp, in case you haven't heard of it, is definitely worth looking into. It makes getting new Lisp libraries super easy and almost obsoletes my Blackthorn Starter Pack (modulo C libraries, which Quicklisp doesn't really handle yet). > > Also, Clozure CL announced not too long ago that the upcoming 1.7 release will allow 32-bit binaries to run on 64-bit Windows. Right now this is only available in svn trunk, but for any of you who have (like me) been experiencing crashes in SBCL on 64-bit Windows, this might make it possible to make a Windows binary for your game again without resorting to commercial Lisp compilers. > > That's about it on my end. Anyone else? > -- > Elliott Slaughter > > "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay Cool! I'll definitely keep an eye on Thopter, it looks like it'll be really cool! And, indeed, Quicklisp is great :) That's great news about Clozure CL, 64-bit Windows has been killing me since I started out. Have you tried it out of trunk? Thoughts/Experiences would be much appreciated. - Tyler P.S. I f-ed up when I subscribed to this list, I used the wrong email. My apologies if I've just confused everyone by changing it, I am the Tyler that initially wrote, this is my real email.

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[lisp-game-dev] Hi everyone
by Ryan Davis 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, I'm Ryan. I figured I'd chime in while people are doing introductions. Lisp games are an on/off hobby for me. I've got a decent amount of code on github: https://github.com/ryepup I end up playing a lot with space ships, SDL, and bad AI. I like setting up a system and watching it go. I've been meandering towards to a tower defense game, starting with a simulation library inspired by Simpy (http://simpy.sourceforge.net/), at https://github.com/ryepup/rpd-simulation. To get this work I made a small coroutine library so I could have a "yield" statement like python, at https://github.com/ryepup/rpd-coroutines. There's some code at https://github.com/ryepup/rpd-simulation/tree/master/examples that shows these in use. Eventually I'll put something together, but I'm firmly on the hobby end of the scale :) Thanks, Ryan -- Ryan Davis Acceleration.net Director of Programming Services 2831 NW 41st street, suite B Gainesville, FL 32606 Office: 352-335-6500 x 124 Fax: 352-335-6506

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[lisp-game-dev] introduction
by David Griffiths 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi all, I'm making games with lisp, and have been lurking here for a while and thought I should probably say hello. I'm one of the authors of fluxus, a scheme (racket lang) based 3D game engine for rapid prototyping and livecoding: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ I've used it to create a lot of stuff, this is probably one of the more complex projects I've done: http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Plant%20Eyes Last year I worked on a facebook game called "Naked on Pluto" (a critical art-game about social networking) where we wrote all the server code in scheme: http://naked-on-pluto.net/ And more recently I've been working with clojure for another online game, a critical take on FarmVille involving permaculture - a bit of info on that here: http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/ My background is in the games industry, and I now enjoy the benefits of functional programming and lisp macros for games dev while fondly remembering all the headaches that statefulness caused when working with thousands of C++ classes. cheers, dave

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[lisp-game-dev] ioforms status update
by David O'Toole 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Not too long ago I set up http://ioforms.org/ to house information for my game-engine-and-toolset project. I want to turn it into a community site eventually, a sort of "social game development and publishing" service for people who use IOFORMS and/or related Lisp games software. Right now I'm the only one who uses IOFORMS, so the social networking is easy :). But, I have spent a lot of time and effort to move IOFORMS much closer to the kind of discoverable and inhabitable system that might attract more users. This involved a lot of research, improvements to the underlying object model, deprecation or removal of some code, as well as writing significant new code for a user interface and tools. As you'll see by the site's past scheduled dates for things, I have been very busy with non-programming related stuff for about two months, and so right now I am not quite ready for the first developer's alpha release described on the ioforms.org site. But I'm working on it.

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[lisp-game-dev] industry journal article on lisp in games
by David O'Toole 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I found this really interesting industry article on Lisp in game development (link below) Apparently this is being republished from a print journal, so I'm not sure if anyone here has read it before. I've read a chunk of the article and it's fascinating to finally see more details on the legendary GOOL (predecessor of GOAL) used in some very popular Playstation 2 games. http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-bandicoot-gool-par… Let's put more of our knowledge on the mailing list so that Google (and people who don't use IRC) can see it :) I'll post thoughts after I finish reading.

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[lisp-game-dev] Hello Everybody!
by Tyler Church 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hello Everybody! I was quite happy when I found the wiki + this mailing list, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one in existence that's making games with Lisp :) I'm a bit sad that no one's posted here in a while, which is why I'm writing. None of you have probably seen me before, so I suppose a little bio is in order. I'm Tyler Church, I love to program. I make video tutorials: manwithcode.com I write code: github.com/tylerc I keep a blog: rubygamedev.wordpress.com (I haven't written in forever though, don't know if that'll change anytime soon) I'm a Ruby and C/C++ guy (HTML and JavaScript sometimes too), and have slowly been becoming a Lisp guy. School & Life demands have been keeping most of my projects from seeing the light of day, but the Lisp game I'm making is coming along nicely, so hopefully that'll be online soon. Enough about me though, I really wanted to make sure everyone on this list is still alive :) . So, how is everyone? How're your projects going? - Tyler

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