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Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2025

Hosted by David Thompson, technomancy · #lispGameJam
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A jam submission

NicCLIM - Map EditorView project page

GUI / CLI symbolic map editor. Made with Lisp!
Submitted by screwtape — 1 day, 1 hour before the deadline
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NicCLIM - Map Editor's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Entertainment - how enjoyable is the game?#210.8701.667
Creativity - how original is the idea?#211.7413.333
Presentation - how does it look/feel?#210.6961.333
Overall#211.1022.111

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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the_dot_matrixSubmitted18 days ago

I tried running your instructions given a fresh install of common lisp, quick lisp, and emacs. After running emacs and launching a slime shell, this is what happens when I try to load McClim. Pretty sure it's using quicklisp to load, but maybe I did something wrong in setting up my emacs enviroment? I followed the instructions on the common lisp and quick lisp websites. At least I'll be able to take a look at the blog post and posted gifs! :)

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fauna~otchi
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the_dot_matrixSubmitted18 days ago

I also tried ecl, as per your blog post... after install quicklisp, this is what I get:

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bonthronSubmitted22 days ago(+1)

Sorry mate. I tried. I really did. 
But I can't get ECL and McClim to work together...
;;;   ** Cannot find the external symbol COMPARE-AND-SWAP in #<"MP" package>.
Debugger received error of type: COMPILE-FILE-ERROR


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screwtapeDeveloper21 days ago

How did you try getting mcclim? Did you use quicklisp ?

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bonthronSubmitted19 days ago

i did this...

ecl
ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 16.1.3 (git:UNKNOWN)
> (load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
> (ql:quickload "mcclim")
To load "mcclim":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    mcclim
; Loading "mcclim"
.
;;; Internal error:
;;;   ** Cannot find the external symbol COMPARE-AND-SWAP in #<"MP" package>.
Condition of type: COMPILE-FILE-ERROR
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ZACK LAHM 林澤22 days ago(+1)

I'm not well-versed in common lisp but I tried to run it with SBCL.  nicclim.lisp failed to compile w/ SBCL and uiop:chdir doesn't seem to resolve "~" and enclose-map somehow resolved to the wrong path, but that's fine because that's something I can fix.  But when I finally get the map editor to show up i somehow saw nothing being shown.  The one shown in the GIF looks good.  I wish I can properly run this...

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screwtapeDeveloper21 days ago

Thanks for trying! I only just tried with sbcl myself, and I found I had the same problem. I should have used UIOP compatibility layer, or tested with sbcl at least!

This fixes the path in the repl:

(merge-pathnames #p"Downloads/nicclim.lisp" (user-homedir-pathname))
(compile-file *)

but then sbcl has a conniption on

(load *)

Where it is angry I wrote this: (lambda (path &aux (path (string path)))) which I believe is conformant shorthand for (lambda (path) (let ((path (string path))))) which I think is obviously allowed. I will think if there is an optimize declamation that will fix this in sbcl or something since it is kind of late days to fix.

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Pixel_OutlawSubmitted22 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

I plan on giving this a shot. I'm mostly a SBCL/SLY guy and need to reconfigure. :) Consider this a placeholder with intent to try for now.  The blog video was pretty cool and I want to try it.

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Interlisp Hungarian Rings
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screwtapeDeveloper22 days ago (1 edit)

Can you let me know if it works as expected in sbcl (+sly), I probably should have tried/shown it with sbcl myself. I like the idea of embedding it into random C++ programs with embeddable common lisp in the future though.

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Pixel_OutlawSubmitted22 days ago(+1)

Sure:

https://pastebin.com/wyE4VBrF

https://pastebin.com/zyDydrZ6

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screwtapeDeveloper21 days ago(+1)

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim.lisp I spot fixed the PATH thing, I didn’t figure out uiop:chdir not working yet though. Will try tomorrow.

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screwtapeDeveloper25 days ago (1 edit)

My blog article is the same as the project page, except itchio did not have an opportunity to break my formatting. https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/instructions-for-game-jam/

unix-surrealism-jam.lisp and levels (GAME.TAR) and unix-surrealism-level-making were created wholly within this jam using my pre-existing map editor NicCLIM; please judge the unix-surrealism.lisp and levels experience, and making-your-own-unix-surrealism-levels experience as per the instructions. See the video. All of that was this jam.

The reuseable compatibly to the lisp-game-jam art is due with permission for this purpose to the excellent https://analognowhere.com/ , adapted by me. Primarily, https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/stranded/ .

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screwtapeDeveloper25 days ago (1 edit)

Looking forward to helping you debug running it. Just download, tar xkvf GAME.TAR and

(ql:quickload :McCLIM)
(compile-file "~/Downloads/nicclim.lisp")
(load "~/Downloads/nicclim.fas")
(in-package :nic)
(compile-file "~/Downloads/unix-surrealism-jam.lisp")
(load "~/Downloads/unix-surrealism-jam.fas")

(uiop:chdir "~/GAME")
(uiop:chdir "~/GAME") ; not a typo
(load "LEVELS/LEVEL-1-STRANDED.LISP")
(load "LEVELS/LEVEL-2-WALL-RADIO.LISP")
(enclose-map 'TECHNO-MAGE/STRANDED.MAP)

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