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

[Bill Robinson]

Hi there,

Just thought I should throw my 2p in. I haven't done the general
introduction of myself on this list here when it was more fashionable a few
months ago, but I have been working on a networking library (Zoetrope) for
lag compensation the last 6 months when I've had time. It's in a mostly
workable state now.

Here's a video (my first ever screencast, when I get round to making
another, I'm sure it will be better)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyph7SN71qs

The demo app there was written with gl-glfw-* but it's independent of it.
Zoetrope dependencies are just ironclad and CFFI.

I have a publicly accessible repository at
http://git.wvr.me.uk/?p=zoetrope.git

Liking the look of blackthorn. :)

Ciao
-bill
http://wvr.me.uk

On 21 June 2011 04:50, Elliott Slaughter <elliottslaughter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Patrick Stein <pat at nklein.com> wrote:
>
>> Elliott, I'd be interested in helping out.  I've watch all of your YouTube
>> videos.  And, I had been considering doing my own stuff from scratch, but
>> I'm excited about Blackthorn 3D.
>>
>
> I don't know how much headway you've made on unet, but it might be useful
> to extract parts of the network layer to form the basis of such a library. I
> thinking most of the stuff in
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/blackthorn-engine-3d/source/browse/src/blackthorn3d/network/socket.lisp
>
> and
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/blackthorn-engine-3d/source/browse/src/blackthorn3d/network/message.lisp
>
> Also, (and this is for Tyler as well), while I will certainly post
> occasional updates to this list, more frequent updates will be posted on
> blackthorn's own mailing list:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/blackthorn-engine-3d-discuss
>
> -- Patrick <pat at nklein.com>
>>
>> On Jun 19, 2011, at 12:25 PM, 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<http://pisa.ucsd.edu/cse125/>(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 <http://www.collada.org/> 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>
>> 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/>
>> 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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>
> --
> Elliott Slaughter
>
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