Applications and libraries/Games

This page contains a list of libraries and tools in a certain category. For a comprehensive list of such pages, see Applications and libraries.

Applications

Bridge

David Roundy originally developed a Bridge game in Haskell and wrote a versioning system for this project. However as time went by, the versioning project Darcs became the more important part of the development and the bridge game was stalled.

Endless Cavern

A 2D procedurally-generated cave exploration game.

Foo

Foo (abbreviation from football) is a playing machine of Paper Soccer, a pencil and paper game for two players. It contains a simple interface using HOpenGL library and provides many playing algorithms.

Frag

Frag is a 3D first person shooting game written in Haskell, by Mun Hon Cheong. It uses Yampa, Quake 3 BSP level format and OpenGL. It is licensed under the GPL.

Haskell in Space

An asteroid like game

Hetris

ASCII tetris in Haskell

hinvaders

A simple ANSI-graphics space invaders written entirely in Haskell 98. See also hackage and darcs.

OpenGL Tetris

Tetris in Haskell with OpenGL

hsChess

Chess AI engine

LambdaChess

GTK chess client

Mage (tar.gz)

Nethack clone written in Haskell

Monadius

Monadius is a shoot 'em up with the selection bar power-up system for Windows, written in Haskell (now on Hackage)

Paratrooper

Paratrooper is a simple action game that runs on Windows and is written in literate Haskell.

Roguestar

Roguestar is a science fiction adventure role playing game using Haskell and OpenGL.

Octane Mech

Octane Mech, OpenGL Haskell based mech game

Shu-thing

A 2-D vector graphics upwards-scrolling keyboard-controlled shooter. You shoot the enemies while dodging their bullets until you reach and defeat the enemy.

Xiangqiboard

An implementation of xiangqi for Unix, using gtk2hs + cairo

Nario

A Super Mario clone, using an SDL binding different from the one in Hackage: [1]

Libraries

Hipmunk

Hipmunk: A Haskell binding for Chipmunk. Chipmunk is a fast, simple, portable, 2D physics engine. It is completely self-contained. See also HipmunkPlayground: a simple OpenGL program that allows you to see some of Hipmunk's functions in action.

Hpysics

Hpysics is a physics engine written using Data Parallel Haskell during Google Summer of Code 2008.

FunGEn - a game engine for Haskell

FunGEn (Functional Game Engine) is a 2D platform-independent game engine implemented in and for Haskell, using HOpenGL. It is intended to help game programmers in the game development process, in a faster and automated way.

Note, that this is released in 2002 and currently will not compile.

Further reading

Blog articles

• Purely Functional Retrogames

• Accidentally Introducing Side Effects into Purely Functional Code

Other

• Games in Haskell, the video

Matthew Sackman and Tristan Allwood on developing games with OpenGL in Haskell