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I'm very curious what sort of games were made in elisp. It's not really the first thing that comes to mind when I think about games programming.

rjsw 2y ago
It has snake and tetris in the default installation.
- doublerabbit 2y ago
  I'm surprised no one has joined the two and invented Snake Tetris.
  - JadeNB 2y ago
    They have; it's just usually called SnakeTris.
davexunit 2y ago
https://bcardoso.itch.io/shoggy https://bcardoso.itch.io/shoggy https://lcolonq.itch.io/slgj2024-game-boy-gizmo https://lcolonq.itch.io/slgj2024-game-boy-gizmo https://asquared31415.itch.io/disassembly https://asquared31415.itch.io/disassembly https://grindingstone.itch.io/pendulum https://grindingstone.itch.io/pendulum
skissane 2y ago
Every copy of GNU Emacs comes bundled with the text adventure Dunnet [0]. Dunnet was originally written by Ron Schnell in 1982, as a Maclisp program running under TOPS-20. [1] In 1992, he ported it to Emacs Lisp; however, the Emacs Lisp version is more than just a simple port of the original, it extends the game with new rooms/items/puzzles, but also removes MIT-centric content–e.g. the "endgame" computer at the end of the game was originally named MIT-SALLY, was located at MIT, and was accessed via Chaosnet–the GNU Emacs version removes all those (dated) MIT references–although the GNU Emacs version contains (obviously intentionally) equally dated (albeit more widely recognisable) content such as a VAX 11/780 [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game) [1] Original is here: https://github.com/Quogic/DunnetPredecessor/blob/master/foo.lsp https://github.com/Quogic/DunnetPredecessor/blob/master/foo....
- stevekemp 2y ago
  I've been an Emacs user for 20+ years and had never stumbled across that game, thanks for highlighting it! I found the CPU, the Key (guarded by the bear) and made it into the house. Was a fun diversion I guess I need to play it more seriously sometime.
anthk 2y ago
Malyon it's a ZMachine interpreter which works mostly fine.
- momentoftop 2y ago
  Playing "This thing all things devours" is one of the most profound gaming experiences I have had, and I happened to use Malyon. Why wouldn't I use the best text editor to play an inform game?
  - anthk 2y ago
    Ditto, I loved devours too, and it's a libre game: https://jxself.org/git/devours.git https://jxself.org/git/devours.git Spiritwrak it's Zorkian but libre licensed unlike Zork [1-3] / Dungeon. And, OFC, Emacs has Inform-mode, a helper for Inform6 and Inform6-lib.

rjsw 2y ago

It has snake and tetris in the default installation.

doublerabbit 2y ago
I'm surprised no one has joined the two and invented Snake Tetris.
- JadeNB 2y ago
  They have; it's just usually called SnakeTris.

davexunit 2y ago

https://bcardoso.itch.io/shoggy https://bcardoso.itch.io/shoggy https://lcolonq.itch.io/slgj2024-game-boy-gizmo https://lcolonq.itch.io/slgj2024-game-boy-gizmo https://asquared31415.itch.io/disassembly https://asquared31415.itch.io/disassembly https://grindingstone.itch.io/pendulum https://grindingstone.itch.io/pendulum

skissane 2y ago

Every copy of GNU Emacs comes bundled with the text adventure Dunnet [0]. Dunnet was originally written by Ron Schnell in 1982, as a Maclisp program running under TOPS-20. [1] In 1992, he ported it to Emacs Lisp; however, the Emacs Lisp version is more than just a simple port of the original, it extends the game with new rooms/items/puzzles, but also removes MIT-centric content–e.g. the "endgame" computer at the end of the game was originally named MIT-SALLY, was located at MIT, and was accessed via Chaosnet–the GNU Emacs version removes all those (dated) MIT references–although the GNU Emacs version contains (obviously intentionally) equally dated (albeit more widely recognisable) content such as a VAX 11/780 [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game) [1] Original is here: https://github.com/Quogic/DunnetPredecessor/blob/master/foo.lsp https://github.com/Quogic/DunnetPredecessor/blob/master/foo....

stevekemp 2y ago
I've been an Emacs user for 20+ years and had never stumbled across that game, thanks for highlighting it! I found the CPU, the Key (guarded by the bear) and made it into the house. Was a fun diversion I guess I need to play it more seriously sometime.

anthk 2y ago

Malyon it's a ZMachine interpreter which works mostly fine.

momentoftop 2y ago
Playing "This thing all things devours" is one of the most profound gaming experiences I have had, and I happened to use Malyon. Why wouldn't I use the best text editor to play an inform game?
- anthk 2y ago
  Ditto, I loved devours too, and it's a libre game: https://jxself.org/git/devours.git https://jxself.org/git/devours.git Spiritwrak it's Zorkian but libre licensed unlike Zork [1-3] / Dungeon. And, OFC, Emacs has Inform-mode, a helper for Inform6 and Inform6-lib.