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Hi all,

For what it's worth, I wrote down a bit about my experience as a first-time developer and gave some advice on how to avoid burnout (how to survive your first game?). I had also read many blog posts about TIC 80 but the authors have simply known their stuff too well to point out the basics that everyone who has come later will have to make the same arduous effort to learn what they had learned. So mostly I just talked about things that I wish someone had told me before I started this game, but since you can't be a first-time developer twice, I hope this blog post can help whoever will be reading it. And while I had written my game in Lua, I did not put any serious Lua code in this blog post so that everyone can implement the same idea just the way he or she likes it. Thank you.

Yeah, that's exactly what I think

Haha, thank you! 

Thank you!

Thank you! You can find a file named LICENSE in the compressed file I submitted (btw, I did try to translate my Lua code into Fennel today but found that sometimes Fennel  can be really quirky and ambiguous.. hope that I can use just Common Lisp with TIC 80 one day, haha

Hi all,

There is something I must confess before this game can possibly waste your time.  It's about the language. As the game is intended for the Lisp Spring Game Jam 2020, I was supposed to write the game in a Lisp dialect, presumably Fennel, since it's a TIC 80  game, but since I knew nothing about Lua when I signed up for the game jam it kind of became a mission impossible to complete a game from scratch using  a crossbreed language as Fennel is and therefore the game is actually built in Lua with the intention of actually learning it. I did plan to translate it back to Fennel but I never made it (I did try tho, you can find a fnl file from the folder but my use of APIs was quite arbitrary and you may not want to read it...) since the time was pretty limited and even now there are bugs here and there. That said, I do not regret using Lua, I learned a new language, built my first game, and I think that's what  I have joined this game jam for in the first place. Writing this game was a tremendous amount of fun to me and I hope you can enjoy it as much as I do. Thank you!