Cloud Breaker
Games
puzzle game
SHOW HN2014
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Cloud Breaker
My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme
itunes.apple.com290points
110comments
#52of 2,272 in 2014
Top 3%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
17 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.55.
Docs: 3 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Original puzzle mechanic
From 2 comments
I love the originality on display with this game mechanic. Too many "samesies" games out there for my tastes. This developer has another puzzler in the App Store as well: Button…
lumens on HNVery cool! I always like seeing when something is built using a typically non-traditional language for the environment. I downloaded the game to see how well it performed, and I…
arms on HN
Congratulations on shipping
From 3 comments
I am so jealous and incredibly happy that you shipped - nice work. I wish I could do that as well.
seivan on HNAwesome work in so many ways. Congratulations!
jorgeleo on HNgreat work :) congrats
oliverlord on HN
Objections
Gambit library ecosystem is weak compared to Chicken Scheme
From 2 comments
> How well maintained and diverse are the GambitScheme libraries? The library situation in Gambit is.... very bad. Last time I tried it (~6 months ago) you had to compile from a…
Touche on HNSeconded. I recently evaluated quite a few Scheme implementations for a very simple web scraping project and found Chicken to be both fast and great with its packages.…
klibertp on HN
Cordova apps perform poorly on Android
From 2 comments
Works great? Show me some apps please! They all are garbage compared to native imho. Not even really usable, again, in my opinion. I wouldn't recommend Cordova for anything at…
tluyben2 on HNOn iOS Cordova works great, not so great on Android (I'm talking about game programming obviously) especially on Android 4.4.
octopus on HN
Requests
Writeup or tutorial on how the app was built
From 4 comments
Thanks for posting this, but the link is rather anemic for this audience; any possibility of a writeup (even a quick and short one) of how you did it? I've been looking at…
npsimons on HNAny chance you'd write a technical article on your algorithms? I'm in love with puzzle manipulation code. Seeing the sort of things you're doing would be a lot of fun.
moron4hire on HNWould really like an end-to-end guide on compiling C with objective C (and possibly some example code in gambit that shows the interfacing you did). I'd love to be able to do…
orthecreedence on HNWow, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I would pay for a good series of tutorials or an ebook on this topic maybe implementing something well known like Tetris etc.
minikomi on HN
Android port
From 2 comments
Since you mentioned it, I'd love (to download & play) a port to Android at some point :)
mcescalante on HNThanks! I'm planning on releasing for Android soon. Hopefully in the next month or two.
rrradical on HN
Questions
How to cross-compile Gambit to iOS and Android
From 2 comments
Thanks for posting this, but the link is rather anemic for this audience; any possibility of a writeup (even a quick and short one) of how you did it? I've been looking at…
npsimons on HNWould really like an end-to-end guide on compiling C with objective C (and possibly some example code in gambit that shows the interfacing you did). I'd love to be able to do…
orthecreedence on HN
Whether Gambit builds on Xcode 5 (clang segfault)
From 2 comments
Dear rrradical, Tried your game, was not disappointed. :-) It's almost spooky that your post came at this time, for I have read a lot about Scheme->C systems this week. This PDF…
Flow on HNI play around with this a bit, a few things I learned is that XCode 5.0's llvm crashes when compiling Gambit-C 4.7.0's generated C code. The beta for 5.1 has a fix. Here are a…
dogprez on HN
Alternatives named
Chicken Scheme
From 1 comment
> How well maintained and diverse are the GambitScheme libraries? The library situation in Gambit is.... very bad. Last time I tried it (~6 months ago) you had to compile from a…
Touche on HN
ClojureScript with a JS game engine
From 1 comment
I've recently spend quite some time trying to figure out what's the best way to use a Lisp in order to write multi platform games. I'm still in the researching phase, but if you…
terhechte on HN
Cordova / PhoneGap
From 1 comment
for HTML5, check out Cordova, even Adobe offers a free iOS / Android / Win8 compiler
sogen on HN
Kivy and haXe
From 1 comment
Thanks for posting this, but the link is rather anemic for this audience; any possibility of a writeup (even a quick and short one) of how you did it? I've been looking at…
npsimons on HN