<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:33:45 +0300: > Hello, > > Quoting Nicolas Martyanoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm a 21 years old french student > > Where in France do you live? > >> which has just discovered Lisp. I've >> been astonished by this language; I've been practicing C, C++, Perl, >> Python and Php for years, and this is the first time I find a language >> so harmonious and graceful. >> >> However, I'm badly deceived that there is no real community. I'm coming >> here without hope, since I see the history of the mailing-list (no >> post...). > > The Lisp community, although small compared to that of Java or others, > is alive and well. It mostly hangs around the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup, > and the #lisp IRC channel is always quite busy. > >> I've been doing a lot of Google searchs to find some stable libraries, >> and most of the libs I found were abandoned, hardly ever finished. > > What kind of libraries did you need and have not found? > >> In this context, it's really difficult to be motivated about working >> with Lisp. It's a language very tempting, but it seems it has no future. >> >> Anyway, I want to believe in Lisp, and I want to use it (I'm working on >> an online 2D RTS video game, and would want to use Lisp for server and >> client). > > This is a good idea. I'd recommend trying the following libraries: > - usocket for networking (http://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/) > - pal for 2D graphics (http://common-lisp.net/project/pal/) > > If you need to see some code to help you get started, you might be > interested by a little bomberman-like game prototype available on > http://matthieu.villeneuve.free.fr/dev/games/ (should work but needs > some optimization, currently there is only one thread on client side, > doing update, graphics and networking). > > Cheers, > > > -- > Matthieu Villeneuve > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
Hey, that Boulder Dash game is cool! Are those actual levels from the old BD games, they seem familiar. You should add some sfx and levels to it and maybe increase the screen size too, my laptop doesn't properly scale up so small resolutions :| -- tomppa _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
