Comments on: Roto-Mortar: A 7-Day Lisp Game

By: pat

pat — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:55:55 +0000

I’ve gotten better at it…. and I have reasonable aim even with two now.

Definitely, if this game is to go anywhere, it should be broken up into levels with the aliens coming more frequently and moving faster and maybe having the turrets be sluggish or faster on different levels.

By: JT

JT — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:55:42 +0000

I made it to 68 before I quit. Usually having two guns makes things easier, but here it’s much harder to keep track of where they’re aiming. I aimed carefully with one gun, but had to fill space with missiles with two.

By: pat

pat — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:49:28 +0000

Ah… “overrun” is the term I used. I thought you meant “stack overflow” or something for a minute.

My best was 32 aliens with the super dull “fill space with missiles” approach. That approach would be taken care off if there were penalties for lobbing missiles at your own base.

By: Zach Beane

Zach Beane — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:26:25 +0000

Pretty cool! I grabbed the linux version and built it with buildapp:

buildapp –asdf-path ./cl-png-0.6/ –asdf-path ~/src/clbuild/systems/ –load-system roto-mortar –output roto-mortar –entry roto-mortar:main

I got overrun after shooting 7 or so aliens.