So playing with clojure has spawned some useful results :). Namely EPIC, an engine for game combat. This is part of a huge secret project some friends and me are working on.

It works nicely so far, speed is - even so not at all optimized yet, quite good. Clojures STM and concurrency methods do a good job in allowing some stuff to run in paralell. So after a meeting on wednesday we decided to make this part of our project open source and publically available.

But what does EPIC do exactly? It calculates the outcome of fights mostly. You can define modules with certain propaties to them - a good set of them are predefined but you are free to extend them as you see fit if you want to do something else. Then once you've a set of modules they assamble to units, as in the unit is build from a certain cet of modules. Finally you toss in some AI for the units, stirr on medium heat and voila, you are ready for a fight.

We have set up a little demo if you want to see what EPIC can do. The fights on this page are all pre calculated and played back only (not live). But the calculation is done in EPIC with the current master branch from github with some custom modules.

So we don"t yet have a way to post combats yourself, but I can offer to add your own combats if you drop me a line and would like to see something. An example can be found here.

Have fun and let me know if you have any questions/suggestions.

Oh and you can find the source on github ;)/