Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is now out

Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no... by aetherspawn on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:43PM (#34345353)

Hi, looks really great! Would really love to see it available for Nintendo Switch. As a casual gamer, I don’t like to lock myself away and play games, so I only really play games on the living room TV on the couch with my partner :)

I think many might be in the same boat.

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Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no... by Shinmera on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:54PM (#34345507)

Believe me I'd love to have it on Switch but it's a tall order for reasons I can't discuss due to NDAs. It might happen if my finances look well enough.

It does run on the Steam Deck, though, so if you can get a hold on one of those...

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Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no... by aetherspawn on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:13PM (#34345769)

Thanks for the response and the suggestion, I’ll look into it.

If the issue with a port is CL, maybe you could look at doing AOT compilation to C or something like that. The switch is more than powerful enough even if the resulting code is slow.

Brief google brought up CLiCC.

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Re:Show HN: Kandria, an action RPG made in Common Lisp is no... by Shinmera on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:53PM (#34346253)

That unfortunately won't be possible. And I'm afraid the Switch is by far not as powerful as one would like.

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