Fox Driver

ace17 2022-04-04 19:28

Wow, a 3D game without Unity ! And written in Lisp ... impressive !

(The GNU/Linux version works very well BTW)

phil-c 2022-04-05 05:37

Wish I could give it a rating but it's not available in Windows, very curious about lisp though now after looking at the Github cause it looks so different.

remco 2022-04-05 10:20

I'm on Manjaro. It won't start for me :-(

There's a long stack-trace, but the gist of it is, it can't find a bunch of functions. Not only things like `gl_window_open`, but also more basic seeming things like `lisp_sqrt`.

I'm not in the right headspace right now to figure this (error) out.

sokette 2022-04-07 19:12

I've never done any lisp in my life and I don't really know what I'm doing wrong to run the game. Could you include a quick "how to start the game" please ? :)

I'll be hype to check this game out later if you ping me when you've done it ! :)

Edit : I read the entire log dump that running ./run produced and noticed a reference to a missing libglfw.so.3 so I installed libglfw3 (and libglfw3-dev, but thinking about it now, I should not need that one). It almost ran this time and core dumped, here is the log of the last fiew lines if needed : ```lisp (def win (create-window (integer 800) (integer 800))) (set-title win "Fox Driver") (make-current win) (load-font "DejaVuSans.ttf" (integer 22)) (loop t (thread:lock-mutex *swank-mutex*) (with-exception-handler (game-update) (lambda (x) (println x) (sleep 0.500000))) (thread:unlock-mutex *swank-mutex*)) ((mouse-move 383 . 228) (mouse-enter) (unknown 16)) Compiled shader with success Compiled shader with success (new-poly ()) Segmentation fault (core dumped) ```

@remco pinging you, you may want to read this for your ```gl_window_open``` problem. But for the ```lisp_sqrt``` I have no idea, I've never toyed with lisp :(

rolferm 2022-04-13 20:01

Web version now available, sorry for the bad performance.

@sokette, it seems this might be a driver issue, but I think you may be able to get the web version to work. The problem has nothing to do with Lisp, in this case the lisp code is running inside an interpreter which is written in C.

slecornu 2022-04-14 21:10

Very nice to see a 3D game developed like this!

steve7411 2022-04-15 23:28

Your Let's Encrypt certificate seems to be expired at the time I played.

steve7411 2022-04-15 23:44

This is a surprisingly fun experience. The core mechanics or paying attention to a few things at once is really rewarding. I made it far enough that it seems like I ran out of road, and then it spawned me back at the beginning without generating any new items to pickup, so I eventually ran out of gas. Also, when I tried playing it in Firefox, only the background was visible, so it wasn't playable.

jepjoh2 2022-04-16 12:58

Very cool. Only experienced a performance slowdown once in the start of the level otherwise it ran smoothly.

Got to 6912 and 13 $$

ollie-d 2022-04-20 18:42

Pretty fun. Had no problems with the web version. I thought it was pretty funny that you needed to run into the edges/corners to make very tight turns. Would've been more engaging if I could've drifted around the corner, but the game played well without it, so what's the point. I liked the different climates you'd cross and how they'd affect heat. Would've been nice if there were some actual tunes that played when the radio turned on, but I understand not including it, especially if you don't already have a convenient audio engine ready to go.

sketchygalore 2022-04-20 19:09

Web version ran well for me! I liked the AC balancing mechanic!

lovetocode999 2022-04-20 22:53

A bit confusing at first, but I got the hang of it on my second run. The game seems to run really well, although the controls weren't very smooth. I also liked the kind of blocky style of everything.

Also, kudos to you for writing this in Lisp!

mikouaji 2022-04-21 00:08

Cool entry :) The controls feel a bit weird, I dont know if its the web version or just me. Very cute visual style!