Good point, I didn't think about that for some reason. Yes I will give it a read, thanks for the link!
On Friday, July 19, 2013 6:19:03 PM UTC+2, Mikera wrote: > > If you want to do in in "pure functional style" then I would suggest a > single atom / ref that contains the whole game state (including monsters, > players, map, items etc.) > > That's the approach I've taken in the two Clojure games I've written so > far, and it has worked pretty well. You might be interested in the blog > posts I wrote about Alchemy, a 7 day Roguelike game in Clojure. There's a > series of these starting with this: > http://clojurefun.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/alchemy-day-1-a-room-with-a-view/ > > On Friday, 19 July 2013 16:55:20 UTC+1, vis wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> I am playing around with a gameserver in clojure, here is the situation: >> - I have a *ref of a hashmap that holds refs of players* >> - I have a *ref of a hashmap that holds refs of monsters* >> I used "refs of players" and "refs of monsters" because at some point I >> might have to transfer things from a player to a monster (like items). >> Since this would be a transaction, refs should be the right choice. >> >> But now I also need some kind of AI loop for each monster. So my question >> is, what would be the "clojure way" to do this? >> - use* *a* ref of a hashmap that holds agents of monsters *so I can just >> use send-off for each monster? >> - use a *ref of a hashmap that holds refs of monsters* that each have a >> agent property that I can send things to? >> - or simply use a java.thread for each one? >> - or am I completely missing something? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> vis >> > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.