Despite being incomplete, Blackthorn is already capable of supporting simple games.īlackthorn is written in Common Lisp, providing:Įfficiency which is (depending on the implementation, and the benchmark) capable of competing with C. Blackthorn provides:Ī not-yet-complete subset of the functionality provided by Game Maker. Game Maker is closed source, so it would be impossible for anyone other than the authors to fix any of the above problems with Game Maker.ģ What does Blackthorn provide?Blackthorn attempts to fix many of the problems above.
(The lack of a rich set of built-in datastructures is something I hear GML users complaining about frequently.) Game Maker’ s extension language, GML, is a kludge, and inefficient. A Linux port is still a dream, and porting to any sort of mobile device is completely unimaginable. Problems with Game Maker, specifically, include: However, Game Maker (and similar programs the authors have tried) have some substantial flaws. Using Game Maker, an experienced user can write a basic game in five minutes. Game Maker, for example, is an engine which provides everything needed to make a basic game, and an extention language for writing more complex behavior.
Libraries like PyGame and LISPBUILDER-SDL wrap more of these low-level details, but still don’ t provide a full game engine needed for writing substantial games.There are, of course, game engines which provide this functionality to the user. Libraries like SDL get many of the driver-level graphics details out of the way, but still leave the user writing in C. The effort needed to write a usable game engine from scratch, especially when dealing with the low-level details of languages like C, make the cost of writing games prohibitive.
Blackthorn is attempt to write an efficient, dynamic, persistent 2D game engine in an expressive language which makes it easy to write games.Ģ Why another game engine?Games are hard to write. thefootnotesīlackthorn: Lisp Game EngineElliott Slaughterġ What is Blackthorn?Blackthorn is a framework for writing 2D games in Common Lisp.
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