I will put news and updates on the project here.
Added a page on innen's design. Read it here
After much fuss, innen now reads map data from a file directly into the map array. I suppose it didn't take me as long as I thought, but it's done now, and once again I've found that when I think I have to do a lot of work, lisp has already done it for me.
Now tile entries can be easily entered with the small tool I wrote, and played immediately (after reloading) inside the game. Quite exciting for an amateur programmer :) Now to make some tile entries... Any volunteers? ;)
There has been good deal of work being done on innen this weekend. The more I write, the more I notice how little of lisp I really know, and the more enlightened about the language I become.
I have just finished bit of code to speed up the process of adding trivial map data into the map array. This will help in a number of ways, mostly with actually being able to walk around the game and explore a little bit. I still have to test a number of things, write some more, and hopefully make a cvs commit so I have something out there.
I can't thank the admins of common-lisp.net enough for providing this service. It feels great to have a project to work on, and feels even better to know that hopefully in the future what I create here will lead to bigger and better things, perhaps even code the community can use!