<div dir="ltr">My free-game package has Gloss-like but far more generalized APIs[0].<br><br>When you define some <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">series of instructions to draw something, you can move then, turn them, or compose them without touching the insides!</span><br><br>[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/free-game-1.0.1/docs/FreeGame.html#t:Picture2D<div><br>2014年1月31日金曜日 21時19分22秒 UTC+9 Alexander Berntsen:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

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<br>I need:

<br>- -2D graphics (preferably with simple shapes available)

<br>- -menus (I can make menus myself with shapes though)

<br>- -simple audio

<br>- -fonts (better than Gloss at least)

<br>- -keyboard input

<br>- -networking (simple direct connections between two computers)

<br>

<br>I need to be able to express my game system as declaratively as

possible[0].

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<br>If the library is based on SDL/OpenGL, that would be nice[1]. This is,

however, not necessary.

<br>

<br>What game libraries are the most mature and adequate for this? The

<br>only library I have used previously with Haskell is Gloss. I am not

<br>experienced in FRP, though I have read about and somewhat groked the

point. I am willing to learn an FRP library.

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<br>[0]  I am writing it as part of a thesis in which I will look at the

<br>modularity and expressiveness of purely functional programming

<br>compared to object-oriented programming. Writing code that is

<br>technically purely functional, but in practice looks like imperative

code, is sub-optimal.

<br>[1]  For the thesis I am writing, I am implementing a C++ version of

<br>the same game. This will probably use SDL 2.0 and OpenGL bindings. If

<br>the Haskell version could use libraries based on that, this would make

<br>it easier for me to write my thesis. I.e., I would not have to spend

<br>time justifying that the modularity and expressiveness I am

<br>investigating is due to the chosen languages and programming

paradigms, and not the libraries I use.

<br>- -- 

<br>Alexander

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