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Game Programming in Prolog

This article explains how a game can be made in Prolog by leveraging the hidden power of logic programming. Inspired by the elegance of data-driven design and declarative programming paradigms, I will be explaining a new way of designing game rules which can at the same time be used as the source code of the gameplay system itself.

A major intellectual challenge, however, struck me when I began to study Prolog - the famous logic programming language which is notorious for its esoteric syntax. The way it approached data structures (such as lists) and algorithms based upon mathematical relations was something so revolutionarily novel to me, that it seriously opened up a new horizon in my faculty of computational reasoning. These realizations soon led me to contemplate upon the notion that, maybe, logic programming has a great deal of potential in the design and implementation of highly complex systems, such as a video game's core gameplay mechanics.

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