Lisp for Game Development is your hands-on guide to harnessing the immense potential of Common Lisp, Scheme (Racket), and Clojure to build truly dynamic, intelligent, and extensible games. This book teaches you to think in Lisp-structuring logic for harmonious systems. You'll master the REPL-driven live coding workflow to accelerate iteration, and leverage metaprogramming to build custom Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) for content creation. This book is for developers seeking a powerful, interactive, and less-obstructive path to game design.

What Sets This Book Apart?
Gain full control over your game's creation pipeline, from language abstraction to cross-platform deployment, through practical insights on:

• Core Concepts of Game Loops in Lisp: Structuring the game loop, event handling, and achieving fine-grained frame rendering and timing.
• Domain-Specific Languages in Lisp: Designing a custom scripting DSL with macros that let game designers write content without touching engine internals.
• Clojure and the JVM for Game Development: Integrating Clojure with frameworks like libGDX and leveraging persistent data structures for predictable state management.
• Concurrency and Parallelism in Clojure: Modeling game actors with core.async channels and safely managing shared state with Atoms, Refs, and Agents.
• AI Systems and Behavior Trees: Creating clear AI representations and building a Behavior-Tree DSL directly within Lisp.
• Networking and Multiplayer Architectures: Implementing client-server models, synchronization, and peer-to-peer approaches using USOCKET and S-expressions.