Show HN: Bullet Script (bs) – a Lisp(y) VM for shmup bullet patterns

Category: devtools

Tags: lisp, dsl, game-dev, vm, bullet-hell, live-coding

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

Bullet Script (bs) is a Lisp-like domain-specific language and VM for authoring bullet-hell shooter patterns. It provides a rich set of primitives for spawning, animating, and transforming bullets, with live coding, debugging tools, and a web-based testbed.

Target audience: game developers, especially those creating shoot 'em up games

Repository: http://bs.ell.dev/

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