I've been casually interested in game development for a while. I haven't done anything exciting, but I've been researching available libraries and surveying the landscape. I haven't checked out JOGL, so I'm not sure how it compares, but from what I've seen JMonkey looks like a pretty nice game engine. It might be worth a look.
http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/ -Travis On Aug 30, 12:01 am, Elliott Slaughter <elliottslaugh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm visiting from the Common Lisp game-dev crowd and wanted to try out > Clojure for writing games. > > I saw some JOGL examples posted in this group, in addition to the > cloggle library which wraps some JOGL functionality. Cloggle is pretty > thin right now and uses glFunctionNames as they are, so I've added > some patches to convert glFunctionNames to Lispier function-names, and > tried to Lispify the interface in general [1]. > > I think I'd be fairly comfortable writing a graphics engine with my > patched version of cloggle. What I'm not so sure about is writing the > game simulation model. > > All game simulation models I've seen used graphs of mutable objects; > I'm not entirely sure how to move to a more functional model. One the > one hand, reallocating the game world on every frame seems excessive > (even if Java's GC is fast), and on the other hand putting refs > everywhere a value could potentially change seems equally excessive > (and probably detrimental to performance). > > I just saw zippers on the other libraries page, but haven't had the > time to read it and don't know if it meets my needs or not. > > If anyone has suggestions on simulating interactions between trees of > objects (especially on the Clojure way to do it), I'd appreciate it. > Comments on my cloggle patches also welcome. > > [1]http://github.com/slaguth/cloggle/tree/master --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
