[lisp-game-dev] [FLGC09] Review and commentary period

[Elliott Slaughter]

New Thopter page on the Blackthorn wiki which you can put on the FLGC page:

http://code.google.com/p/blackthorn-engine/wiki/Thopter

And here's a screenshot for you:

http://wiki.blackthorn-engine.googlecode.com/hg/thopter-0.0-screenshot.png

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:23 AM, David O'Toole <dto1138 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow elliott! I got a chance to watch the video, but haven't played yet.
> Thanks so much for participating in the contest!!!
>
> Today is New Years Day 2010, the deadline for the FLGC 09 contest! For
> those of you who haven't posted your entries, go ahead now (completed or
> not)! There's no judging phase, the point is for us to play each other's
> games, provide feedback, and of course learn about lisp games. On top of
> that, I'm hoping people will use their 7day versions as the basis for
> something bigger in the future.... forcing yourself to make something
> complete in 7 days is a great way to start!
>
> Ok, here's my suggestion on what do to next. Everyone post the URLs and
> instructions to their entries if they haven't yet, and then I'll make a
> small webpage with all the entries. please send a screenshot if you can, so
> that the page will look nice.
> Then we can play the entries and comment on the mailing list. I'll work on
> the page today.
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Elliott Slaughter <
> elliottslaughter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's my final submission for FLGC09. The game, Thopter, is a scrolling
>> shooter inspired by the likes of Raptor: Call of the Shadows and other old
>> games. Thopter is implemented in Common Lisp, using lispbuilder and
>> cl-opengl for graphics, usocket and cl-store for sockets and serialization,
>> and a handful of other CL utilties. The game engine used to build Thopter is
>> freely available under the MIT license (see project page below).
>>
>> The controls are arrow keys to move, spacebar to shoot, and either
>> left-ctrl or left-alt to fire a seeking missile. Three upgrades in the game
>> restore health, increase the firepower of the gun, and provide missile ammo.
>>
>> Currently the game supports single player and two-player coop over LAN. To
>> start a network game, open a terminal and run
>>
>> ./main --server=W.X.Y.Z --port=12345
>>
>> and on the other machine
>>
>> ./main --connect=W.X.Y.Z --port=12345
>>
>> where W.X.Y.Z is the IP address of the host machine and 12345 is some port
>> of your choice.
>>
>> Here is the final video of the game:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MDqC6XG-Ag
>>
>> Source and downloads (currently only Mac, but Windows and Linux coming
>> soon) are available from the project page:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/blackthorn-engine/
>>
>> Enjoy :-)
>>
>> --
>> Elliott Slaughter
>>
>> "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
>> predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
>>
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>


-- 
Elliott Slaughter

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict
the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
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