alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
This is a little game implemented over a week of tinkering and targeting Emacs.
The point is both to have fun with this kind of simulations, and also explore the "functional core / imperative shell" approach to architecture. I also developed a tile and tile effect definition DSL, which makes this even easier to extend. From this point of view it's a success: easy testing, easy extension,
Gameplay-wise the simulation is too simplistic, and needs input from people interested in this kind of toys. The original Micropolis/SimSity is the last time I built a virtual city.
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This is great! We need more ASCII games/simulations and it's only a bonus if it's in Emacs :-)
This may be unrelated but I swear emacs has a color tile library for games, it's used in tetris iirc
This is wonderful. Consider decoupling the core from Emacs, or packaging in a way that doesn’t require it as heavily.
I’ve been doing my own exploration of terminal ASCII games via Dwarf Fortress instead of SimCity. I’ve learned that letting a coding agent play is an interesting way to get feedback as well :)
Fantastic! Can you make Emacs shake the screen by scrolling vertically and horizontally whenever there's an earthquake?
Finally RMS can play SimCity.
Congrats on your Seventh Sally!
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Amazing! I have added this to the HN Arcade https://hnarcade.com/games/games/micropolis-simcity-clone-in...