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authorDavid Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>2023-06-05 09:11:33 -0400
committerDavid Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>2023-06-05 09:11:33 -0400
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Small tweaks to spring lisp game jam post.
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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ tags: guile, gamedev, gamejam, chickadee
summary: Check out all of the entries to the Spring Lisp Game Jam!
---
+![Super Bloom gameplay GIF](/images/chickadee/super-bloom.gif)
+
The [Spring Lisp Game Jam
2023](https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2023) submission
deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a
@@ -34,9 +36,9 @@ even to me. It’s a very minimal game. Water is used both to grow the
flower and to attack the dirt balls. The only keys used are the arrow
keys and Z. Most of the work happened on the weekends at the start
and end of the jam. I’m quite happy with how it came out given how
-little time I spent making it!
-
-![Super Bloom gameplay GIF](/images/chickadee/super-bloom.gif)
+little time I spent making it! I wish I could have added more variety
+to the enemy spawn patterns and relied less on random placement, but
+the result is OK.
In addition to using Chickadee, this game served as another
opportunity to test drive my still-unreleased game engine named
@@ -74,9 +76,9 @@ As far as I can tell, there are no other entries that used Guile, and
entry](https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2023/rate/2102505)
that used Scheme at all. As usual, Common Lisp and Fennel (the Lisp
that compiles to Lua) were used for the bulk of the entries. This is
-call to all Schemers to get out there and make some games! And if you
-don’t want to use Guile, I *know* at least Gambit and Chicken are good
-for making games.
+a call to all Schemers to get out there and make some games! And if
+you don’t want to use Guile, I *know* at least Gambit and Chicken are
+good for making games.
Congrats to all jammers that participated, whether you completed your
entry or not. I’ve been following the Lisp Game Jam for years and it