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A bit of an experimental online game here http://borrowed-scenery.org/aniziz/ trying out HTML5 canvas with open streetmaps and an accompanying android app:

http://www.borrowed-scenery.org/img/bs-017.jpg

The idea is to feed plants that people have tagged in Ghent, Belgium (it's part of this arts ...

Keep lurking here and getting inspired so thought I should post - betablocker ds, livecoding music thingy, should make a better video, but hope you get the idea. More info here http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Pr ... ablockerDS

teamonkey wrote:You really are a Linux coder aren't you?

Hehe - yes, used to binary compatibility breaking every 3 minutes

Here's a very alpha version:
http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/files/flux ... 386-v2.zip

Thanks for the information! Sounds like OpenGL is going to be ok - what about binaries, if I build a win32 executable on win2k, should it work ok in Vista and XP?

Hi all,

I'm a linux programmer by nature (although with windows programming experience from a few years back in the games industry). I've recently ported my lispy games/livecoding engine[1] to win2k using mingw - I just wondered if this means the executable should work unchanged on XP and Vista ...

Well, I've made some progress, you can move around, fire bullets and waves of enemy come toward you - the code is here:
http://www.pawfal.org/flotsam/frisbee/rocket.scm
and it looks like this:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2041/2233068235_a2be7647af.jpg?v=0
Not very impressive, but it's not ...

Ah, thankyou - I didn't notice that :) Must be connected to the fact I just released a new version.

I've made some progress on using frtime with fluxus, and I've begun a simple little shoot em up - but I haven't done enough to really understand it deeply yet. I'll post some screenshots when I have ...

The reason Haskell is such a strict language in terms of side effects is exactly the same reason C/C++/Java etc are strict in terms of static typing - it prevents bugs, and makes it easier to write compilers to make things more efficient. Pure functional programming just ramps up the strictness ...

Rapid prototyping and efficiency of human effort is where I want to see it go.

Non-indy games are having similar problems, everything is massive, years of development, too much effort/expense to try anything new out, sheer quantity of code.

Has anyone played with functional reactive programming/animation?

http://www.haskell.org/frp/

The main hook (I think) is that functions which reference a variable internally get called automatically when it changes, which removes the need for callbacks or complicated state flow - it should scale ...

Does anyone know how I can get access to the Scheme REPL while a program is running?

I'm not sure if this is possible in DrScheme or not, but I did this by embedding mzscheme in my own app, then you can get a hook into the interpreter and run bits of scheme whenever you want.

Thinking about it ...

Maybe forcing myself to do more stuff in scheme would help to fix it, but I shouldn't have to force myself should I?

I had to force myself to do that when my mindset was all C/C++, which took a year or so. Now C/C++ just feels a bit yucky (I still do an awful lot of it though).

I do program ...

@nebogeo: That is ace! A little hard to read the text when the blur effect is applied, but I got the impression that one could easily teach programming techniques to a nontechnical audience with that technique.

I have done a few workshops which try to do exactly that. You can generally get ...

Oh, btw - I'm working on some fluxus scheme livecoding tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5DJTOy6EA
Might be of interest here...

It is controversial isn't it - it only narrowly passed the vote.

I agree with the sentiment that scheme should be a more experimental minimalistic language primarily, and not get into the same space as more mainstream scripting languages. I do like the standardised modules though - and unicode, and ...