I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey

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Post by ertucetin » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 8:03 PM UTC

I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
ertu.dev

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Post by tines » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 11:20 PM UTC

Please include a little animated GIF or something that gives us a taste of what it looks like!

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Post by HenryBemis » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 11:32 PM UTC

Interesting to see that I already had an account at CrazyGames. It wasn't loading from your URL, but I saw that it's CG so when I logged on with my account my Firefox played ball (I got ABP, Ublock, NoScript, PrivacyBadger, LARGE hosts file, so 'some' websites are broken ;)

Cool game, fast. Someone dominated me for 4 mins and then I decided to switch to Fortnite :)

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Post by mplanchard » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 11:34 PM UTC

tines wrote: post #2

Please include a little animated GIF or something that gives us a taste of what it looks like!

Game's linked at the top of the blog[0], and loads in the browser, but agree a gif would be nice.

[0]: https://wizardmasters.io/

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Post by koinedad » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 11:43 PM UTC

Was surprised that it loaded on my phone, nice work!

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Post by kamranjon » Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 11:45 PM UTC

This is bonkers and so cool that you did this solo. Loaded right up on my iPhone 13, prompted me to turn my phone to landscape and I was running around in a 3d world shooting spells at other players - really great work and surprisingly polished for being a solo project.

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Post by tetris11 » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 12:12 AM UTC

Holy cow, I've been playing for 20 minutes without realising. This is amazing!

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Post by beretguy » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 12:56 AM UTC

How many closing parenthesis do you have on a last line?

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Post by airstrike » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 1:08 AM UTC

whaaaa this is too good!

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Post by emmanueloga_ » Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 1:16 AM UTC

Quick summary: ClojureScript + Babylon.JS on the frontend and Clojure for the backend, coordination via Websockets.

The point about lack of tooling for Babylon.JS is interesting: a lot of times I see people wanting to release games but spending most of the time building tools... sometimes all of the time. It is a delicate balance!

Congratulations on releasing! Very cool project.