How many closing parenthesis do you have on a last line?
Exactly as many as opening! (I mean what else did you expect?) :)
I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
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#32Cool! Even though my computer is seemingly too underpowered to play it. Anyway, do you plan to make it a big game?
I guess no, if it performs really well I might consider it.
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#33hmmm seems buggy, player is aiming at the sky continuously and I can't get it to make it aim at a normal level more than a microseconds with the mouse.
> player is aiming at the sky continuously
Same here :(
I'm guessing this wasn't tested (at all?) in Firefox? That's unfortunate.
Re: I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
#34Incredible job! Hopped in a bit and got some great kills. Reminds me of quake
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#36How many closing parenthesis do you have on a last line?
I earn my paycheck in Clojure and have for about 10 years. In my experience if your code ends with ))))))))))) you're doing it wrong. This is a code smell for me.
Instead of (qux (baz (bar (foo x)))) use other tools:
- Big picture: is this code overly procedural? If so, is it possible to make it declarative and functional?
- Line-level picture: one of the thread macros, functional composition, etc. will make this more readable. For example: (-> x foo bar baz qux).
Re: I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
#37How did you learn how to make games? Any books you recommend? Or github projects you learned from?
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#38PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE option to invert mouse Y-axis.
It looks fantastic, but I can only play if down on mouse is up on view.
Re: I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
#39hmmm seems buggy, player is aiming at the sky continuously and I can't get it to make it aim at a normal level more than a microseconds with the mouse.
> player is aiming at the sky continuously Same here :( I'm guessing this wasn't tested (at all?) in Firefox? That's unfortunate.
Works fine for me on Firefox (Windows).
Re: I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
#40How many closing parenthesis do you have on a last line?
Things that terrify ICE car drivers about electric vehicles: Range. Things actual EV drivers rarely worry about: Range. Things that terrify non-Lisp programmers about Lisp: Parentheses. Things actual Lisp programmers rarely worry about: Parentheses.
I don't think that's a great example, as I never heard of "range anxiety" until EVs started to become popular, and it was applied to and admitted by exclusively owners of EVs and also E-bikes.
But it's 2025, it was enough to downvote and ignore the GP comment... Even responding with a dismissive https://www.thejach.com/imgs/lisp_parens.png is too much in current year. Another comment mentions paredit/parinfer, I'm not exactly masochistic but I hate tools that automatically type more than indentation for me so I don't use them, but I also basically never think about counting parens.
