Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

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Post by awkravchuk » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 1:26 PM UTC

Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces
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Post by sourcepluck » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 1:56 PM UTC

I was only looking back over Part 1 yesterday! What timing!

Re: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

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Post by dunefox » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:00 PM UTC

Nice, just this week I started developing a roguelike in Python, but Lisp might be cool as well.

Re: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

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Post by awkravchuk » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:05 PM UTC

dunefox wrote: post #3

Nice, just this week I started developing a roguelike in Python, but Lisp might be cool as well.

There's also this full-fledged Lisp-based roguelike tutorial: https://nwforrer.github.io/posts/roguelike-tutorial-part1

Re: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

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Post by fredrikholm » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:08 PM UTC

Few (tech) things pull at the heart string more than great projects/articles about Common Lisp. Man what a treat!

Read the first part when it came back, really excited to read this one. Kudos to the author!

Re: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

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Post by awkravchuk » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

fredrikholm wrote: post #5

Few (tech) things pull at the heart string more than great projects/articles about Common Lisp. Man what a treat! Read the first part when it came back, really excited to read this one. Kudos to the author!

Thanks mate, I appreciate it :)

Re: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

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Post by Guthur » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:46 PM UTC

The event loop is brilliant example for how much `loop` is a full blown iteration DSL... love it or hate it ;)

Re: Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces

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Post by awkravchuk » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:49 PM UTC

Guthur wrote: post #7

The event loop is brilliant example for how much `loop` is a full blown iteration DSL... love it or hate it ;)

I used to scoff at it at first, but after a few years of CL programming loop is one of my favourite CL constructs :)

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Post by taeric » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 3:04 PM UTC

awkravchuk wrote: post #8

Guthur wrote: post #7

The event loop is brilliant example for how much `loop` is a full blown iteration DSL... love it or hate it ;)

I used to scoff at it at first, but after a few years of CL programming loop is one of my favourite CL constructs :)

I'm with you there. Is a bit of a mind bend, as I really disliked it the first few times I saw it.

For an even sillier mind bend, I'm using tagbody to be able to directly transcribe some of Knuth's algorithms as I am learning them.

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Post by CyberDildonics » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 3:25 PM UTC

taeric wrote: post #9

awkravchuk wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to scoff at it at first, but after a few years of CL programming loop is one of my favourite CL constructs :)

I'm with you there. Is a bit of a mind bend, as I really disliked it the first few times I saw it. For an even sillier mind bend, I'm using tagbody to be able to directly transcribe some of Knuth's algorithms as I am learning them.

I don't understand why turning a simple loop into a 'mindbend' is considered good. The downfall of programming is complexity, if you're getting your mind blown by a loop how are you going to do the rest of the program?