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There’s a really interesting and active sub-community of Lisp game developers. Baggers, Steve Losh, mfiano, borodust, dto, and 3b are but a few of the recurring
by reikonomusha 7y ago
There’s a really interesting and active sub-community of Lisp game developers. Baggers, Steve Losh, mfiano, borodust, dto, and 3b are but a few of the recurring names. There’s even a start-up game company building a large non-trivial game in Lisp [0]. A list of games written in Lisp is here [1]. Baggers has a huge amount (>100 videos!) of youtube content on programming the full graphics pipeline in Lisp [2] and he continues to post week to week.
If you have the impression that Lisp is only used by a bunch of academic knuckleheads like myself, check these folks out!
[0] https://defungames.com/ https://defungames.com/
[1] https://github.com/lispgames/lispgames.github.io/wiki/Lisp-Games https://github.com/lispgames/lispgames.github.io/wiki/Lisp-G...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/CBaggers https://www.youtube.com/user/CBaggers
- schwurb 7y agoAlso Naughty Dogs of Jak & Dexter and Crash Bandicoot fame - mostly due to Andy Gavin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Gavin
- ilikehurdles 7y agoIs clojure welcome in these communities? It’s my first lisp, but after 3 years of using it, it’s become quite dear to my heart. I’ve been learning about roguelikes while diving into a pixi.js interop.
- paines 7y ago>Must be written in any dialect of Lisp. This includes, but is not limited to Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, and Clojure. from https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2018 https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2018 From the last 2-3 Jams, IMHO, you can see a tendency towards exo-lisps as many entries were done with Fennel or some in Urn.
- jclarkcom 7y agoI wrote a game in Lisp 24 years ago - imho still fun to play. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(video_game) It’s open source and available on tons of platforms.