Comment by ArtWomb

5 years ago

Legend. I've heard the original GOAL code is floating around somewhere online. Is there any chance Sony ever releases it into the public domain?

I notice another game today on here using ClojureScript. Apart from a lack of tooling / engine, is Lisp better suited for gamedev?

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dmbaggett  5 years ago

One could endlessly debate the merits of Lisp dialects for game development, but at least in the Crash era it was a big win for us. Naughty Dog migrated away from Lisp in the PS3 era, I believe. (I was long gone by then.)

It was very powerful to be able to write code for critters and other animated objects in GOOL/GOAL because it was both conceptually simple and compiled into tiny amounts of code, which mattered a lot when you only had 2MB of RAM (half of which was video RAM if I recall correctly).