Hi all,
I've been working on an idea for a silly arcade game (maybe) in a
similar vein to LiquidWar only with boids. It's still at a very early
stage but I find it quite fun to play with despite the complete lack of
game logic! If anyone's interested mail me at charlieb at (one-word risk
decisions) dot com and I'll send it to you.
Cheers
charlieb
I thought some further information might be useful. It's a cl-sdl based
system developed with debian+sbcl but I daresay that it'd work ok on
cmucl as well (untested).
At the moment there are boids with as lots of different behaviors
including the standard three and some others of my own design, walls
that limit the boids movement and a control boid that you control with
the arrow keys. You can change the control boid's area of influence with
w and s and space toggles between attraction and repulsion.
Charlieb.
charlieb <··@privacy.net> writes:
> I thought some further information might be useful. It's a cl-sdl based
> system developed with debian+sbcl but I daresay that it'd work ok on
> cmucl as well (untested).
> At the moment there are boids with as lots of different behaviors
> including the standard three and some others of my own design, walls
> that limit the boids movement and a control boid that you control with
> the arrow keys. You can change the control boid's area of influence with
> w and s and space toggles between attraction and repulsion.
Sounds like fun. Why don't you just post a URL or put it on some
source distribution server?
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schoolteachers, I probably would wind up actually doing something else.
Fred Gilham wrote:
> charlieb <··@privacy.net> writes:
>
>
>>I thought some further information might be useful. It's a cl-sdl based
>>system developed with debian+sbcl but I daresay that it'd work ok on
>>cmucl as well (untested).
>> At the moment there are boids with as lots of different behaviors
>>including the standard three and some others of my own design, walls
>>that limit the boids movement and a control boid that you control with
>>the arrow keys. You can change the control boid's area of influence with
>>w and s and space toggles between attraction and repulsion.
>
>
> Sounds like fun. Why don't you just post a URL or put it on some
> source distribution server?
>
>
It's so imature that it'd be an insult to sf or cl.net imho. I don't
have any space to call my own.
Charlieb.
charlieb <··@privacy.net> writes:
> It's so imature that it'd be an insult to sf or cl.net imho. I don't
> have any space to call my own.
If it's a single file (or not many) then perhaps you could post it to
the small-cl-source (sourcecode-only) mailing list. You can access it
via NNTP as group gmane.lisp.sources.code on news.gmane.org.
That list is intended as an outlet for random hacks.
Cheers,
Luke
Luke Gorrie wrote:
> charlieb <··@privacy.net> writes:
>
>
>>It's so imature that it'd be an insult to sf or cl.net imho. I don't
>>have any space to call my own.
>
>
> If it's a single file (or not many) then perhaps you could post it to
> the small-cl-source (sourcecode-only) mailing list. You can access it
> via NNTP as group gmane.lisp.sources.code on news.gmane.org.
>
> That list is intended as an outlet for random hacks.
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
Cool, is it OK to post gzipped files?
charlieb <··@privacy.net> writes:
> Cool, is it OK to post gzipped files?
I think it's optimal to post single-file sources inline (as with
gnu.emacs.sources), but if that's not possible I'd think that gzip'd
tars are okay too. IIRC there is currently a 64KB-limit on posting
size.
There is also a (non-sources) Lisp application discussion mailing list
called 'clump'. It's group gmane.lisp.clump.
You can post to whichever you think is more appropriate. Nobody'll
complain about getting some fun code in the mail :-)
Cheers,
Luke
Thanks. It's gone to gmane.lisp.clump, it's only 6k so it shouldn't have
too much of an impact.
Charlieb.
Luke Gorrie wrote:
> charlieb <··@privacy.net> writes:
>
>
>>Cool, is it OK to post gzipped files?
>
>
> I think it's optimal to post single-file sources inline (as with
> gnu.emacs.sources), but if that's not possible I'd think that gzip'd
> tars are okay too. IIRC there is currently a 64KB-limit on posting
> size.
>
> There is also a (non-sources) Lisp application discussion mailing list
> called 'clump'. It's group gmane.lisp.clump.
>
> You can post to whichever you think is more appropriate. Nobody'll
> complain about getting some fun code in the mail :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
Luke Gorrie <····@bluetail.com> writes:
> charlieb <··@privacy.net> writes:
>
> > Cool, is it OK to post gzipped files?
>
> I think it's optimal to post single-file sources inline (as with
> gnu.emacs.sources), but if that's not possible I'd think that gzip'd
> tars are okay too. IIRC there is currently a 64KB-limit on posting
> size.
I'd *muchly* perfer if no compressed files were posted. Really.
Random binaries make me edgy. Very, very edgy.
//Ingvar
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than you can with just a kind word. Among others, Marcus Cole
Luke Gorrie <····@bluetail.com> writes:
> If it's a single file (or not many) then perhaps you could post it to
> the small-cl-source (sourcecode-only) mailing list. You can access it
> via NNTP as group gmane.lisp.sources.code on news.gmane.org.
Hmm. I wish I'd discovered this before.
--
~jrm
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:59:23 GMT, Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net> wrote:
> Luke Gorrie <····@bluetail.com> writes:
>
>> If it's a single file (or not many) then perhaps you could post it
>> to the small-cl-source (sourcecode-only) mailing list. You can
>> access it via NNTP as group gmane.lisp.sources.code on
>> news.gmane.org.
>
> Hmm. I wish I'd discovered this before.
It's only a couple of weeks old.
Edi Weitz <···@agharta.de> writes:
> On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:59:23 GMT, Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Luke Gorrie <····@bluetail.com> writes:
>>
>>> If it's a single file (or not many) then perhaps you could post it
>>> to the small-cl-source (sourcecode-only) mailing list. You can
>>> access it via NNTP as group gmane.lisp.sources.code on
>>> news.gmane.org.
>>
>> Hmm. I wish I'd discovered this before.
>
> It's only a couple of weeks old.
I feel less bad about not discovering it before, but much worse
for not paying attention.
Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu> writes:
> Edi Weitz <···@agharta.de> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:59:23 GMT, Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Luke Gorrie <····@bluetail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> If it's a single file (or not many) then perhaps you could post it
> >>> to the small-cl-source (sourcecode-only) mailing list. You can
> >>> access it via NNTP as group gmane.lisp.sources.code on
> >>> news.gmane.org.
> >>
> >> Hmm. I wish I'd discovered this before.
> >
> > It's only a couple of weeks old.
>
> I feel less bad about not discovering it before, but much worse
> for not paying attention.
I don't think it's been widely announced, mainly due to the list-admin
being deliciously busy with Real Life (and quite lazy, to boot).
FWIW, the stated license policy (from July 1st) is "use freely, credit
author; if you want any other license terms, please state so
clearly" and anything before that day is "unless explicitly stated,
ask author". Please try to limit yourselves to a single file, plain-
text.
//Ingvar
--
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hard to permeate the network with.
Edi Weitz <···@agharta.de> writes:
> On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:59:23 GMT, Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Luke Gorrie <····@bluetail.com> writes:
> >
> >> If it's a single file (or not many) then perhaps you could post it
> >> to the small-cl-source (sourcecode-only) mailing list. You can
> >> access it via NNTP as group gmane.lisp.sources.code on
> >> news.gmane.org.
> >
> > Hmm. I wish I'd discovered this before.
>
> It's only a couple of weeks old.
Mid-April, I think.
//Ingvar
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From: charlieb
Subject: Re: Lisp boids to play with -- URL for convenience.
Date:
Message-ID: <2iladcFog8hnU1@uni-berlin.de>
Hello again,
I've acquired some webspace so if you want to have a look you can get
it at http://www.websamba.com/charlieb/cl-sdl-boids.tar.gz
Enjoy!
charlieb