Inspired by Bret Victor's demo, Chris Granger's live editor helps connect you with what you're building.

Inspired by Victor’s presentation, developer Chris Granger has put together a similar live game editor in Clojurescript.

If you haven’t watched the video of Victor’s talk, you should start there, but the basic idea behind his real-time editor is to make your code more closely connected to what it creates, in this case a simple game. Granger’s take on the idea is similar — all changes you make to the code are reflected immediately in the running game. You change a line of code and the game immediately changes right with it. Here’s Granger’s video demonstrating the editor:

As Granger writes on his blog, “essentially I learned that Victor was right — there’s unquestionable value in connecting yourself with your creation.”

Granger’s demo code is available on GitHub and there’s a .jar file available for download if you’d just like to play with the demo.