BOborodust·Jul 7, 2019Submission
Show HN: Simple Common Lisp framework for making 2D games
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trivial-gamekit
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borodust / trivial-gamekit
trivial-gamekit
Simple framework for making 2D games
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Apr 2018 | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2018 | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2018 | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2018 | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2018 | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2018 | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2018 | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2018 | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2018 | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2019 | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2019 | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2019 | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2019 | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2019 | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2019 | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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2 sourcesI'm biased but I'd go Common Lisp
The basics:
- SBCL: generates fast[0] code. runs well on windows
- Quicklisp: The package manager which lets you install the packages mentioned below
I've got a video here that should help with getting set up on windows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWVu8VVDbI&t=1s
Then you could try the SDL2 approach:
- cl-sdl2: Bindings over sdl2 https://github.com/lispgames/cl-sdl2
- cl-sdl2-mixer: audio playback https://github.com/lispgames/cl-sdl2-mixer
- Some basic math library like: 3d-matrices, rtg-math, sb-cga
Or maybe an existing engine:
- https://github.com/borodust/trivial-gamekit
Come down to #lispgames on freenode if you need a hand as there is usually someone there who has touched this stuff[1]
I'll also pimp my own stuff while I'm here just in case someone is looking for a lispy layer over gl
- https://
Read the rest
github.com/cbaggers/cepl
Main downside of Common Lisp is that Emacs or Vim are pretty much a requirement to get a nice development environment, without which you are pretty much in 'writing Java in notepad' territory.
[0] for some definition of fast that I don't want to belabor this comment with.