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Reporting Operation [Lisp Game Jam 2023] Progress

A topic by bryce-carson created Jun 05, 2023 Views: 123 Replies: 1
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My game is incomplete, unfortunately, as I have started implementing it much too late. It is nearly there, at least, but not today, unfortunately. You can read the game's source code and my development blog here.

I don't want to submit an unfinished game, because nobody will be able to play it, so I'm withdrawing from the jam. Next time! I hope next time I either finish this game and submit that, with a whole lot of Emacsy polish, or that I have plans and enter the jam sooner.

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Manna is a game wherein you literally collect "mana for emacs." You collect mana/manna by killing the word manna as it appears in the Desert buffer. It is to be put into the Basket--not by you, but by Emacs--when you've collected it (it's against Church of Emacs rules to eat manna that has been collected for Emacs [it is not for you!]).

The game is currently unplayable, as core features are missing entirely. Therefore it was not submitted to the jam for consideration. Why don't you get lost (in The Maze and the Cat)? Go on, get out of here (and go read my development blog!) [with all due respect fellow LISPers, this paragraph has a joking, friendly mood].

Happy Peanut Butter and Lisp Jam everybody!

The title of this topic, "Reporting Operation ... Progress", is the name of the topic in the Emacs Lisp reference manual where I got the inspiration for my game.

Everyone jokes about Emacs being a puppy, or an operating system. Well, we feed our pets, don't we? We've got to collect manna for Emacs to eat!