[lisp-game-dev] Announcing Blackthorn 3D, a new game engine for Common Lisp

[Tyler Church]

Excellent! That looks pretty cool! Alas, I can't really help out, I
know next to nothing about 3D, but I send you my encouragement! I'll
be watching your project, I hope it goes well. Once you get all the
game-specific stuff out of it, make another announcement, I'd be
interested in using it :)

Tyler

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Elliott Slaughter
<elliottslaughter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> This spring I was lucky enough to be able to spend time working on something
> I've wanted to do for a long time--work on a full-blown 3D game engine in
> Common Lisp. As a part of CSE 125 at UCSD (a senior design project course in
> video game), I worked a team with 4 other people to create a 3D multiplayer
> video game in 10 weeks. The result is Blackthorn 3D, and an accompanying
> demo game named LKCAS.
> The game engine uses cl-opengl (with lispbuilder-sdl) for graphics, and
> supports particle effects, portals, skinning and animation (with a loader
> for the Collada format). The custom-built, pure-CL physics engine has
> support for swept sphere collisions against the static environment, allowing
> us to do things like have the players walk on all the walls in our levels.
> The network code was written with usocket and userial, and easily supports 4
> players over a LAN, or even over the internet (albeit with the latency of
> your connection). See the following video for an example of what the engine
> can do:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz1OFjVLvcc
> The course is now over, and I am transitioning Blackthorn 3D into being an
> open source project. I am planning on being the primary maintainer for the
> engine, and am looking to see whether anyone in the community is interested
> in helping out. At this point, I am still working on extracting
> game-specific code from the engine, but I am hoping that the engine will be
> usable in 3rd-party games by the end of the summer.
> For more information, source code, and binaries (for Windows), see the
> project page:
> http://code.google.com/p/blackthorn-engine-3d/
> --
> 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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