[Haskell-cafe] [reactive] A pong and integrate

[Peter Verswyvelen]

IMO: For AAA game programming? Definitely not. For exploring new ways
of doing game programming and having a lot of fun and frustration?
Sure! For making casual games? I don't know.

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ben Christy <ben.christy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I keep asking myself the question is Haskell and/or FRP even suitable for
> game programming.
> And if so are there any design patterns.
> 2010/5/19 Patai Gergely <patai_gergely at fastmail.fm>
>>
>> > I that the saw sleep time at each loop is fixed (0.02). So game speed
>> > will
>> > depend on processor speed, since with a more powerful CPU frames will be
>> > computed quicklier?
>> Yes, that's how it works.
>>
>> > So we don't have (with the Simple branch) some way to say "I want my
>> > sprite
>> > to move 100 pixels *per second* on the left", except if we provide
>> > ourselves a time signal?
>> That's exactly the case, although I'd probably provide a delta time
>> signal. The Simple version is a discrete stream library, and it doesn't
>> pretend to have continuous-time abstractions.
>>
>> Gergely
>>
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