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# Plant Insect Bird Game Dynamic Sketch
inb4 people wanted to find out what a 'dynamic sketch' was (ask [Sacha](https://sachachua.com/blog/) instead). Sorry I'm going to experiment with [eev](https://anggtwu.net/index.html#eev) in this document kinda woven into the writing. Go with it.

## Getting one software individual at all.
```
 (eepitch-shell)
cd
git clone https://codeberg.org/tfw/pawn-75 Pawn-75
mkdir -p leocommunity
cp -r ~/Pawn-75/Pawn-75 ~/leocommunity/plant-insect-bird

sudo apt install clisp
```
Now we have one of my software-individuals. I added the debianish line for installing clisp, which is the historically officially supported software-individuals lisp implementation (other than allegro).

## Starting clisp in emacs
In emacs, because we're not crazy. If you aren't in eev emacs right now, I trust you know what you're doing.
```
 (eepitch-kill)
 (setq inferior-lisp-program "clisp -E ISO-8859-1 -modern")
 (slime)
 (setq eepitch-buffer-name "*slime-repl clisp<2>*")
```
We opened lisp in the usual way. If you already had a clisp slime-repl open, that would have a <2> in it.

## Starting that software-individual in clisp
```
(require "asdf")
(uiop:chdir "~/leocommunity/plant-insect-bird/demus/Process/main/")
(load #p"../../../remus/Startup/cl/acleo.leos")
(cle)
```
And we're in. How easy was that.

## Add a game knowledgebase and board entityfile
```
crek game-kb
loadk game-kb
setk game-kb
crefil board
loadk board
```
Well, we have a game knowledgebase with a board entityfile, and we loaded that board entityfile and its related knowledge.

## Add a grid thingtype to game-kb board
```
put grid type thingtype
put grid attributes {tiles, description}

addmember (get board contents) grid
writefil board
loadk board

put game-kb mustload {board}
writefil game-kb
loadk game-kb
```
- Make a grid entity of type thingtype
- - Can be used as a type now
- Its set of tracked attributes:
- - tiles
- - description
- add that grid thingtype to board
- reload board
- Also mustload board when we load game-kb

We are almost done this intro.

## Make and add one first grid
```
put first-place type grid
put first-place tiles <ground ground plant ground insect bird bird ground plant>
put first-place description "First place in that it was the first place rather than particularly competitive"

addmember (get board contents) first-place
writefil board
loadk board
```

## Check out first place.
```
(get first-place tiles)
(get first-place description)
```
To everyone who wasn't playing along, those last two lines resulted in

```
ses.025) (get first-place tiles)
  => <ground ground plant ground insect bird bird ground plant>

ses.026) (get first-place description)
  => "First place in that it was the first place rather than particularly competitive"

ses.027)
```

Okey. I think I am going to replace my initial Pawn-75 readme with this post as well.

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