Game Development

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 Games group on haskellers.com.

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

Software

• Applications and libraries/Games - a partial list of games and game engines/libs

• Some relevant Hackage categories: Game - Game Engine - Graphics - Sound - Physics

Articles and blog posts

• 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.

Videos

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

• bloxors: an OpenGL Logic Game written in Haskell

Examples

• graphics-drawingcombinators-example - how to make an SDL-using package buildable on mac OSX

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