#gameDev #devlog #NicCLIM #McCLIM Map editor #alphaRelease explainer part 2 ! Things begin to get crazy. #commonLisp #programming .
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-ii-lambdas/
Here I focus on writing normal lisp lambdas, and pasting them into the active map. Part 3 will be about picking up the lambdas and walking around the map, using them (i.e. to effect hextille game of life).
I look forward to your thoughts. We are in strange waters.
@iacore I'm not addressing myself to hardware accelerated graphics programming here. Out of interest, symbolics' CLIM 2 manual does explicitly address the connection of the common lisp interface manager to opengl programming right at the front. I am kind of hoping @kasper and/or @notptr figure this out for me though ;p
@screwlisp I meant to ask, do indie gamedevs have to worry about industrial espionage as say Naughty Dog or Squaresoft?
It seems like the overall value in a text adventure would be way less, unless its an odd kind of text of adventure.
sorry for punting the question. In your experience, is there any meaning to people nefariously stealing games from you?
From my perspective if someone got some authentic lisp knowledge from me, and started distributing it, I could basically take a holiday. Maybe misrepresenting authorship of code could be actively bad.
@awkravchuk @screwlisp @cy @lwflouisa There is piracy when you publish, I knew of Chinese & Russian copies of some of my commercial games, dunno if it was just "warez" or getting around Great Firewall.
In dev, you do sometimes get knockoffs but not often. A text adventure is hard to write, easy to steal the text of, but why? There's no money in it, and it's so personal a work. Graphics can be "worth" copying, but that's mostly from big guys like Nintendo, Sony, or SquEnix.
#gamedev
@mdhughes @awkravchuk @screwlisp @cy I think at the time I was experimenting with improving the enemy UI for a specific hybrid genre.
( I started out in the modding world creating mods for minetest, but recently shifted to text adventures. The gauntlet game is based on a minetest mod creating biomes that roughly simulate an alien invasion. )