Clojure in Unity 3D: Functional Video Game Development

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An open-source Clojure runtime is grafted into Unity 3D so Clojure runs inside the Unity editor and exports with the engine; a REPL lets code mutate the scene graph live. Integration uses a forked Clojure CLR, a hacked def-component form to emit Unity subclasses, and a generated hydrate/dehydrate API to turn persistent maps into game objects. Demos show procedural terrain, boids and spline trails; performance and GC are acceptable but the build is pre-alpha, fragile, and relies on several Unity/CLR workarounds.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:16Game Development Sucks
3. 4:31Graphics, physics, ECS, audio, ecosystem, editor, deployment
4. 42:40Components
5. 43:02API Wrappers
6. 43:40Snapshotting
7. 44:16Logic driven design
8. 45:28Procedural meshes

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