chocolatier

So I built a game engine in ClojureScript over the course of several years to scratch a personal itch. I wanted to express 2D web games using a functional and declarative style that supports my love for the fast feedback loop of REPL driven development. After lots of big life changes, development has stalled, but I keep coming back to it as a source of infinite curiosity and creative work. I want to share this here to gather feedback from the community and share some of the ideas that came from building this. What do you think about the approach I took here [0]? Do the goals of the project (functional, declarative, repl-driven) resonate with you? As an example of what it looks like in real usage you can see the demo app in the repo. A more detailed discussion of the implementation can be seen in a talk I gave at Clojure West [1]. [0] http

I've been working on a project to create 2D sprite based game engine in ClojureScript. My goal was to represent the game completely with data and let the engine figure out how to interpret and render it (declaratively). In the end I implemented an entity component system (as other comments have suggested) and used existing javascript rendering libraries to handle rendering (not writing a wrapper for webgl...). You can check it out here: https://github.com/alexkehayias/chocolatier It's been a ton of fun bringing a functional approach to games using Clojure and I gave a talk about it at ClojureWest this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1ie0pIO_E hope this helps others looking to build games!