Lisp Game Jam 2021 PS2 Shooter

Use PCSX2 to run this game! Unzip this folder somewhere and use the "Load ELF" option to run the main file game-host.elf.

It may or may not run on a real Playstation 2. I recommend launching with uLaunchELF or ps2link, but any homebrew launcher should work. If launching with ps2link use game-host.elf but if launching with other launchers from USB use game-mass.elf. The files must be unzipped to the path mass:LGJ21/ for this method to work, and I have found it flaky at best. Please report if this works or not on your PS2!

All Lua/fennel source is included in the game release zip, in the scripts/ folder. The full source bundle contains the PS2 core engine C code.

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I've been experimenting with Playstation 2 homebrew and decided to attempt the Autumn Lisp Jam 2021 in fennel using my PS2 engine. I learned a lot doing this, but ended up throwing out the majority of the work I had done. Nothing was coming together and I spent a lot of time fixing engine/technical problems.

I think there is a lot of interesting stuff to say about my code here. I tried to be semi functional and ended up being a bit too abstract. My lisp improved, I've never written anything this big in lisp before. Loads of places I could improve code quality with macros but I was fighting the hardware and didn't have time to experiment.