Difference between revisions of "Game Development"

Revision as of 09:17, 7 September 2014

This page and the #haskell-game IRC channel are the starting points for everyone interested in doing game development with Haskell. You may also wish to join the Games group on haskellers.com, or the Haskell game development subreddit.

There are quite a lot of games, unfinished libraries, and interested people out there - please gather links here and join us on #haskell-game !

Games and game engines

Applications and libraries/Games lists games and game engines/libs

See also Hackage categories: Game, Game Engine, Graphics, Sound, Physics

Other game-related wiki pages: category:Games

Other supporting software

grid provides tools for working with regular arrangements of tiles, such as might be used in a board game or self-organising map (SOM). Grid currently supports triangular, square, and hexagonal tiles, with various 2D and toroidal layouts (description).

Articles and blog posts

The Quest for Programming Nirvana: On Programming Game Systems in Haskell; a Master Thesis on programming game systems in Haskell

Functional Programming and 3D Games (thesis, PDF)

Asteroids & Netwire

Writing JavaScript games in Haskell - Breakout

Purely Functional, Declarative Game Logic Using Reactive Programming

Computer Games' - trying to implement the game flow of a computer game

The Next Mainstream Programming Languages: A Game Developer's Perspective (PPT, PDF) presentation by Tim Sweeney

Purely Functional Retrogames

Accidentally Introducing Side Effects into Purely Functional Code

wxHaskell - A Portable and Concise GUI Library for Haskell (PDF) - describes an implementation of an asteroids game, wxAsteroids

Haskell for Games! Blog post, with PDF slides from AngloHaskell talk.

Postmortem: Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter: the Precursor Legacy; an article about a game developed with a DSL compiler written in Lisp

Lambdor blog mostly about Yampa FRP and game development in Haskell with some tutorials

Writing JavaScript games in Haskell

LambdaCube 3D is a domain specific language and library that makes it possible to program GPUs in a purely functional style.

Videos

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

bloxors: an OpenGL Logic Game written in Haskell

LambdaCube 3D - Stunts example

LambdaCube 3D - Quake 3 example

Examples

GorillaBAS - this was an attempt on defining computer games, and build such a thing.

https://github.com/mlesniak/game - Haskell/OpenGL/Chipmunk game prototypes

wxAsteroids, a well-documented game, based on wxHaskell

hssdl-mac-example - how to make an SDL-using package buildable on mac OSX

http://codepad.org/LRGEkkDp - initialization for SDL to start rendering OpenGL stuff

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stunts - A revival of the classic racing game Stunts to serve as a non-toy-sized example for LambdaCube.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dow - Dungeons of Wor is an homage to the classic arcade game, Wizard of Wor. This game is also an experiment in functional reactive programming, so it might be a useful resource to anyone interested in this topic.

Possible Hackage categorisation guidelines: upload games to Game, engines and libs to Game Engine, or at least to some category beginning with Game, and check latest categories before uploading

Wishlist

Is Hackage missing a useful data structure or library for some functionality that would benefit game programming? Suggestions for useful things can be added here as potential projects to hack on.

Octtree, kd-tree, various space partitioning techniques (maybe start with spacepart).

Binding to fmod

Binding to enet for multiplayer games. (jeffz is working on this).

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 [[Category:Games]] [[Category:Community]]
-This page and the #haskell-game [[IRC channel]] is the starting point for everyone interested in doing game development with Haskell. You may also wish to join the [http://www.haskellers.com/teams/7 Games group] on haskellers.com.
+This page and the #haskell-game [[IRC channel]] are the starting points for everyone interested in doing game development with Haskell. You may also wish to join the [http://www.haskellers.com/teams/7 Games group] on haskellers.com, or [http://www.reddit.com/r/haskellgamedev the Haskell game development subreddit].
 There are quite a lot of games, unfinished libraries, and interested people out there - please gather links here and join us on '''[irc://irc.freenode.net/#haskell-game #haskell-game]''' !
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 * See also Hackage categories: [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:game Game], [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:game%20engine Game Engine], [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:graphics Graphics], [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:sound Sound], [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:physics Physics]
+* Other game-related wiki pages: [[:category:Games]]
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 * [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/grid grid] provides tools for working with regular arrangements of tiles, such as might be used in a board game or self-organising map (SOM). Grid currently supports triangular, square, and hexagonal tiles, with various 2D and toroidal layouts ([https://github.com/mhwombat/grid/wiki description]).
 == Articles and blog posts ==
 <!-- add new ones at the top, probably -->
+* [https://github.com/alexander-b/master-thesis The Quest for Programming Nirvana: On Programming Game Systems in Haskell]; a Master Thesis on programming game systems in Haskell
+* [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/munc-thesis.pdf Functional Programming and 3D Games] (thesis, PDF)
+* [http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2013-08-18-asteroids-in-netwire.html Asteroids & Netwire]
+* [http://jshaskell.blogspot.nl/2012/09/breakout.html Writing JavaScript games in Haskell - Breakout]
 * [https://github.com/leonidas/codeblog/blob/master/2012/2012-01-17-declarative-game-logic-afrp.md Purely Functional, Declarative Game Logic Using Reactive Programming]
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 * http://hackage.haskell.org/package/stunts - A revival of the classic racing game Stunts to serve as a non-toy-sized example for LambdaCube.
+* http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dow - Dungeons of Wor is an homage to the classic arcade game, Wizard of Wor. This game is also an experiment in functional reactive programming, so it might be a useful resource to anyone interested in this topic.
 * Possible Hackage categorisation guidelines: upload games to Game, engines and libs to Game Engine, or at least to some category beginning with Game, and check latest categories before uploading
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 == Wishlist ==
-Is hackage missing a useful data structure or library for some functionality that would benefit game programming? Suggestions for useful things can be added here as potential projects to hack on.
+Is Hackage missing a useful data structure or library for some functionality that would benefit game programming? Suggestions for useful things can be added here as potential projects to hack on.
 * Octtree, kd-tree, various space partitioning techniques (maybe start with [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/spacepart spacepart]).