Glaw

The goal of GLAW is to provide a collection of basic functionalities to help developping games.

Basic ideas are:

• as few non-lisp dependencies as possible
• collection of tools that can work together instead of fully integrated engine
• do not force the user to a specific game genre
• independent of windowing API (i.e. not tied to sdl or glut)

Quickstart

Using Quicklisp

You can get glaw directly from quicklisp by just doing:

(ql:quickload "glaw")

This may not be the latest git version depending on when I pushed changes.

If you want the latest git version first clone this repository:

git clone git://github.com/patzy/glaw.git

Then change to the new glaw directory and issue the quickload call from here.

If you want to use the examples just do:

(ql:quickload "glaw-examples")

Manual install

Get the following required dependencies (and their respective dependencies):

• cl-opengl;
• cl-openal.

If you want to use the included extension you may need:

• imago: glaw-imago for image based assets loading
• lispbuilder-sdl and lispbuilder-sdl-image: glaw-sdl for image based assets loading

Get ASDF and configure it so glaw's .asd are in the search path and then run:

(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :glaw)

for the lib itself, or:

(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :glaw-examples)

for the examples.

Examples

A few examples are provided in the examples/ directory, they depend on:

• glop for windowing and input.
• imago for texture loading.

It is possible to use the examples with lispbuilder-sdl and lispbuilder-sdl-image instead of glop and imago. To do so:

• change the :depends-on line in glaw-examples.asd
• use :glaw-examples-sdl in *features* instead of :glaw-examples-glop

Note that I don't test often with lb-sdl and it may not work/compile properly.

To run an example:

 (glaw-examples:run-example 'glaw-examples:example-name)

Where example-name may be one of the following:

• sprites
• gui
• particles
• text
• pathfinding
• texture
• tilemap
• sound
• skeletons
• console
• input

There's also a simple breakout game using glaw here, and a more polished asteroid clone here.