On Jan 6, 1:07 pm, "Mark Engelberg" <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Decide on a data representation that represents the entire state of > the game world at a given instant. > > Write a function which can draw this state. > Write a function which takes the state and player keypresses as input, > and returns a new updated state. > Write a function which takes the state and returns the new state just > from time elapsing. > > ... > Then write a loop that consumes an initial state, and creates a game > experience by repeatedly applying the above functions. No globals or > refs are required, just keep passing the new states back into the loop > for further processing.
This also gives you instant replay for free -- treat it as a (lazy) seq of states, and collect as many of the states as you care to collect (perhaps only the "interesting" ones like where the snake changes direction or runs into something). mfh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
