Playing around with the Lobster language
Cloning the Star Castle arcade game as a way to give direction while learning the language.
So far, I've found Lobster to be a pretty fun language to play around in. I'm probably not using HOF as much as the language allows, but I can always review the code at the end and see if I missed any oportunities to make the code more clear.
It is surprising how tangled the state can get for such a simple game.
You'll need the lobster compiler/interpreter itself, which you can get here
Then just run:
lobster sfort.lobster
A and D to turn, W to go forward, and
Space to fire. Escape quits. P pauses.
All the pieces are there. The cannon and sparks are implemented, and things get more hectic the more times you kill the cannon. There's a banner and game over screen now too.
The main thing left is reviewing the code. I know there's some sloppy state handling that's caused most of the final bugs, especially around state changes. And I suspect there's some boilerplate that can be cleaned up by making better use of Lobster's features.