[plt-scheme] game libraries

On 7/3/07, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
> I don't use allegro (I used to ages ago though), but I've been working on
> something like this with OpenGL for a while:
> http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
> Which is capable of making games like this:
> http://www.pawfal.org/al-jazari/
> I've recently added a lot more to the engine, such as shadow mapping,
> skinning and skeletons for character animation.

> The interesting part is how to present imperative graphics states to
> Scheme nicely, I haven't yet figured out a nice way to do this - I'm doing
> some very non-functional things in my Scheme API, lots of state and side
> effects.
>
> It would be good to discuss this with another Schemer! :)

Dave, this is some very cool stuffs. I love al-jazari, by the way.

I'll go ahead and speak for others on this list and suggest that if
you have design questions about how to cross the
stateful-to-<insert-paradigm-here> boundary in a graceful/elegant way,
please ask away.

I think, at some point in the past, I encountered impromptu, and was
turned off by the editor/non-PLTness of the environment. Had I known
you were building on PLT Scheme, I probably would have been playing
with it long ago.

Very cool.

Cheers,
M

(who missed the 'reply to all' the first time...)