Pre-West Prep: Morgan Mullaney

April 04, 2015

Talk: Well I wouldn't want to make a dysfunctional game

Morgan Mullaney's talk at Clojure/West is about writing games using Lisp and functional programming.

Background

I agree with the talk description; Lisp in games has a long and storied history. The biggest success I know of is Crash Bandicoot, which used a Lisp that allowed the game to get closer to the hardware. There's a nice series of articles about the creation of Crash Bandicoot. The creators wrote their own version of Lisp. Part 9 of the series has a nice, detailed description of the language. There's also an article I like about writing games in a functional style. John Carmack (of id Software fame) has also been talking about Lisp and Haskell recently.

About Morgan Mullaney

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