Lisp as scripting language?
David Bilbey
utilize lisp. I would like to embed a lisp interpreter into my game so
that the ghosts' AI can be written as lisp files. The game would then just
load the lisp files (one for each ghost) and use a given function for
the AI of the ghost. The lisp script should be able to get info from the
game such as pacman position. Is there a good package available for this?
Thanks,
David Bilbey
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Ray Blaak
> I'm writing a pacman clone (for my own education), and I would like to
> utilize lisp. I would like to embed a lisp interpreter into my game so
> that the ghosts' AI can be written as lisp files. The game would then just
> load the lisp files (one for each ghost) and use a given function for
> the AI of the ghost. The lisp script should be able to get info from the
> game such as pacman position. Is there a good package available for this?
scsh is a Scheme-based script system at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh
It has a well designed interface to OS services.
Some people here don't consider Scheme to be a real lisp, but it should be real
enough to get your work done.
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David Bilbey
| scsh is a Scheme-based script system at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh
| It has a well designed interface to OS services.
First of all, thank you for your response. I don't understand how this
system will fulfill my needs. I need to be able to embed the interpreter
into my C++ program. This seems like a stand-alone scripting language. Am
I missing something? Thanks again.
David Bilbey
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Joe Marshall
> +-----On 09 Apr 2000 10:40:00 -0700, Ray Blaak spoke unto us:----------
> | scsh is a Scheme-based script system at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh
>
> | It has a well designed interface to OS services.
>
> First of all, thank you for your response. I don't understand how this
> system will fulfill my needs. I need to be able to embed the interpreter
> into my C++ program.
You left out that part, it makes a big difference.
You might try MzScheme. I think you can embed that.
Tim Bradshaw
> You might try MzScheme. I think you can embed that.
elk is also embeddable delightfully simply (also a scheme, not a CL).
--tim
thi
> I'm writing a pacman clone (for my own education), and I would like to
> utilize lisp. I would like to embed a lisp interpreter into my game
> so that the ghosts' AI can be written as lisp files. The game would
> then just load the lisp files (one for each ghost) and use a given
> function for the AI of the ghost. The lisp script should be able to
> get info from the game such as pacman position. Is there a good
> package available for this?
a bit off-topic...
maybe you can revive the lisp used in the old "abuse" game? (i'd offer
pointers, but i'm sort of afraid of typing "lisp abuse" into a search
engine. :-)
thi
dis81001
David Bilbey wrote:
> I'm writing a pacman clone (for my own education), and I would like to
> utilize lisp. I would like to embed a lisp interpreter into my game so
> that the ghosts' AI can be written as lisp files.
You may be interested to take a look at Gnu Robots
(http://www.gnu.org/software/robots)
It is a game in which you write the AI of your character in Scheme (using
Guile), so it should have some ideas you could snarf from it for your Pacman.
Good luck
> "If a kid ever asks you how Santa Claus can live forever, I think a good
> answer is that he drinks blood." --Jack Handey
Cool sig :)
David Bilbey
| What platform?
| For Win32, Corman Lisp[1] can be called using COM interfaces - allowing
| it to be embedded in a program quite easilly. Another option would be
| writing the whole thing in Lisp.
Platform is Linux. I would consider writing the whole thing in Lisp if it
weren't for 3 things. The first is that I've already got most of the
infrastructure of the game written in C++ (which I am proficient in). The
second thing is that I'm not that good with Lisp yet to write a game in it
(though that could be worked through). Lastly, I don't know of a library
with functionality similiar to SDL (which I'm using in C++) for Lisp. I
looked at MzScheme (capitalization?) and ELK and Guile so far. I could
probably use any one of these.
David Bilbey
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Rahul Jain
1:55 PM, David Bilbey <dlbi...@bilbey.resnet.mtu.edu> wrote:
> First of all, thank you for your response. I don't understand how this
> system will fulfill my needs. I need to be able to embed the interpreter
> I missing something? Thanks again.
>
> David Bilbey
>
librep might be a good solution:
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David Bilbey
| David Bilbey wrote:
|> I'm writing a pacman clone (for my own education), and I would like to
|> utilize lisp. I would like to embed a lisp interpreter into my game so
|> that the ghosts' AI can be written as lisp files.
| You may be interested to take a look at Gnu Robots
| (http://www.gnu.org/software/robots)
Thanks for the pointer.
|> "If a kid ever asks you how Santa Claus can live forever, I think a good
|> answer is that he drinks blood." --Jack Handey
| Cool sig :)
Thanks.
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Tom Breton
> +-----On 09 Apr 2000 10:40:00 -0700, Ray Blaak spoke unto us:----------
> | scsh is a Scheme-based script system at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh
>
> | It has a well designed interface to OS services.
>
> First of all, thank you for your response. I don't understand how this
> system will fulfill my needs. I need to be able to embed the interpreter
> into my C++ program. This seems like a stand-alone scripting language. Am
> I missing something? Thanks again.
If you're considering Scheme, you prolly want to look at Guile, a
Scheme which is meant to be embedded in C.
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Chris Double
> I'm writing a pacman clone (for my own education), and I would like
> to utilize lisp.
What platform?
For Win32, Corman Lisp[1] can be called using COM interfaces - allowing
it to be embedded in a program quite easilly. Another option would be
writing the whole thing in Lisp.
Chris.
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Chris Double
> Lastly, I don't know of a library with functionality similiar to SDL
> (which I'm using in C++) for Lisp.
In case you decide to do future projects in Lisp, you can use SDL from
Lisp. Most of the Common Lisp's have decent ways of calling C
functions. SDL should be no problem to use in that manner.
Chris.
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Dave Pearson
> [SNIP] Lastly, I don't know of a library with functionality similiar to
> SDL (which I'm using in C++) for Lisp. [SNIP]
There was someone on the librep <URL:http://librep.sourceforge.net/> who
said they were writing a game and using librep in the way you mention. They
also mentioned something about using SDL. Have a search of the mailing list
archives.
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Rudolf Schlatte
> In case you decide to do future projects in Lisp, you can use SDL from
> Lisp. Most of the Common Lisp's have decent ways of calling C
> functions. SDL should be no problem to use in that manner.
SDL handles input too, so it uses callbacks :-(
I will tinker with my SDL bindings again when Peter van Eynde releases
the next version of the Debian CMUCL package.
Fernando
<dlbi...@bilbey.resnet.mtu.edu> wrote:
> +-----On 09 Apr 2000 10:40:00 -0700, Ray Blaak spoke unto us:----------
> | scsh is a Scheme-based script system at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/scsh
>
> | It has a well designed interface to OS services.
>
>First of all, thank you for your response. I don't understand how this
>system will fulfill my needs. I need to be able to embed the interpreter
>into my C++ program. This seems like a stand-alone scripting language. Am
>I missing something? Thanks again.
Why not doing everything in Lisp? Anyway, you may want to download
the sourcecode for Abuse (a game by crack.com): a C game with an
embeded Lisp interpreter for the character's AI.
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