Re: [ISUGameDev-annc] [Fwd: ATTN UGRADS: Lisp Jobs (fwd)]

[Justin H. <ja...@vr...>]

There is an in-depth discussion of this in the April 2002 issue of Game
Developer magazine. One of the developers of Jak & Daxter did a postmortem
on the game, and it talks a lot about the GOAL language.

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20020710/white_01.htm

justin

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Justin Hare  <ja...@vr...>
Virtual Reality Applications Center
Iowa State University, Howe Hall
http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/~jahare
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Chad Austin wrote:

> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 04:28:29 -0800
> From: Chad Austin <ae...@vr...>
> To: gda <isu...@li...>, an...@ik...,
>      ri...@su...
> Subject: [ISUGameDev-annc] [Fwd: ATTN UGRADS: Lisp Jobs (fwd)]
>
> This is the coolest thing I have ever heard of.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ATTN UGRADS: Lisp Jobs (fwd)
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:03:52 -0600 (CST)
> From: Vasant Honavar <ho...@cs...>
> To: ug...@cs...
>
> Here might be a job opportunity for those of you who know Lisp or Scheme
> and are interested in developing interactive game software.
>
> Vasant
>
> Forwarded message:
> > From ai...@ux...  Sat Mar  8 17:35:30 2003
> > Message-ID: <3E6...@re...>
> > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 14:16:49 -0800
> > From: Craig Reynolds <cw...@re...>
> > Reply-To: cw...@re...
> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; I; PPC)
> > X-Accept-Language: en
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > To: ai+...@cs...
> > Subject: Job: Lisp powers Jak & Daxter at Naughty Dog
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > Sender: ai...@ux...
> >
> > I got a reply suggesting I forward this to ai+...@cs...
> >
> > Craig Reynolds
> > http://www.red3d.com/cwr/
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Lisp powers Jak & Daxter at Naughty Dog
> > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 12:38:58 -0800
> > From: Craig Reynolds <cw...@re...>
> > Reply-To: cw...@re...
> > To: the...@ai...
> >
> > I had a surreal experience yesterday at the Game Developers Conference.
> > The director of a successful software company was complaining about how
> > hard it was to find good Lisp programmers.
> >
> > Stephen White, of Naughty Dog, Inc. spoke on "The Technology of Jak &
> > Daxter".  Naughty Dog (http://www.naughtydog.com/) is a game studio in
> > LA, known for its popular Crash Bandicoot series and now Jak & Daxter.
> >
> > He also talked in glowing term of how the power of Lisp (well, Scheme,
> > well GOAL: Game Object Assembly Lisp) helped them create the complex
> > runtime code of a major commercial console game.  The text of a few of
> > his slides is included below.
> >
> > (In Crash Bandicoot, they used a game engine written in C which they
> > scripted in GOOL, an earlier Lisp-like language.)
> >
> > I thought this would be of general interest to TUS, and perhaps even a
> > job opportunity for someone.  Naughty Dog is hiring and they need Lisp
> > programmers.  Can anyone suggest other Lisp-friendly communities I
> > could send this to?
> >
> >
> >
> > What is GOAL?
> > * GOAL is our custom compiler based on Lisp (well, actually Scheme).
> > * Practically all of the run-time code (approximately half a million
> >   lines of code) was written in GOAL.
> > * Only the IOP code and a small amount of kernel code was written in C.
> >
> >
> > GOAL Features
> > * Object-oriented language.
> > * Extremely simple syntax.
> > * Powerful macro capability,
> >   far superior to Cs preprocessor or C++s templates.
> > * Listener
> >   * Code can be executed live at a listener.
> >   * Code can be compiled, downloaded,
> >     and linked without interrupting gameplay.
> >   * Data structures can be inspected or modified live.
> >   * Rapid tuning and debugging.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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