I coded a large proportion of my "7 day Roguelike" Alchemy ( https://github.com/mikera/alchemy ) while the game was running.
Tools I used were Eclipse, Clojure and the Counterclockwise plugin. No special JVM settings required: Clojure is quite happy to reload and recompile code on demand on any JVM. The basic strategy was: - Launch a REPL - Run the game (I set up a convenience function(launch) that would run a fresh instance of the game in a new window whenever needed) - Test / play the game - Whenever necessary, write code to modify or query the running game at the REPL and run this live - If I needed to reload any code from the editor into the running game, press CTRL-ALT-L (useful whenever I coded a new feature in the regular editor and wanted to test it out) On Saturday, 23 March 2013 22:22:14 UTC+8, Oskar Kvist wrote: > > Hi! > > I saw this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BES9EKK4Aw4 of Notch > coding on Minecraft while the game was running, and of course seeing the > changes in the running program. He used some kind of debug mode in his IDE > (I don't really know which IDE). I want to make a game, and I want to to > also be able to code while the program is running. I know this sort of > thing is common in Lisps, so even without that IDE's debug mode it should > be possible. Is there anything in particular that I need to do or look out > for in order to make it work? Are there some JVM settings I should use? > Does anyone know how that debug mode works? I kind of understand how it can > be done with a plain repl, but I don't wanna miss out on anything that > would make it easier. Any kind of insight is very appreciated. > -- -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
