USE lisp WITH game - Making an Adventure Game with Clojure

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Builds a 100% Clojure point‑and‑click adventure (~12,000 LOC) using play-clj, models SCUMM-style dialogue with Clojure zippers, implements dynamic choice trees (randomized name guesses) and imperative in-game scripts via core.async action channels (begin/update/finished protocol). Runtime edits happen over nREPL hot-editing so assets and behavior change while the game runs. Cross‑platform release targets PC/Mac/Linux; profiling finds occasional GC hitches and a slow image-mask pathfinder that proved the need for a navmesh or ECS.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:31The Stealth Ninjas
3. 2:02Tick's Tales
4. 2:33We'll explore
5. 3:59Famous dialogue
6. 6:26Data structure
7. 7:01clojure.zip/zipper
8. 10:06Altered zipper
9. 12:29Name guessing puzzle
10. 14:20In-game scripting with Clojure
11. 14:42Creating a simple script
12. 15:05Goals in scripting
13. 16:11Scripts are asynchronous
14. 16:37Common Approaches
15. 17:57The main game loop
16. 18:57Using core.async
17. 19:56Example action
18. 22:35Next steps
19. 28:44Lessons learned

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