[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Silkworm game

[Duane Johnson]

I'm not too much of an expert in Haskell, but I did notice that  
building the game required keeping track of a lot of state  
information, which was not very intuitive in Haskell (although the  
OpenGL state info is rather intuitive).  If I were to do it in Haskell  
again, I would try to learn more about FRP (Functional Reactive  
Programming) and see if that improves things in terms of state.

Ruby is my favorite imperative language, so I would certainly  
recommend it for game development.  It would likely be much easier in  
Ruby, but perhaps a little slower.  My experience with Ruby on Rails  
has been that it is always a little slower than I wish it were :)

-- Duane

On May 3, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Daryoush Mehrtash wrote:

> I noticed that Chipmunk also has a Ruby interface.  Do you have any  
> pro/con of implementing the game in Ruby vs Haskell?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daryoush
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Duane Johnson <duane.johnson at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Reprinted from my blog post [1]:
>
> ===
>
> The semester is over, my final project was a success (at least in  
> that I passed the class) and it’s time now to release the game I  
> made for Graphics 455: Silkworm!
>
> This is my first full application in Haskell.  The process has been  
> an enlarging experience–I’ve come to really enjoy the mental work  
> that goes into thinking about a program in a functional way.  I  
> highly recommend the challenge to other software engineers.
>
> Silkworm combines the Hipmunk binding to Chipmunk 2D Game Dynamics  
> with OpenGL, and GLFW (an alternative to GLUT).
>
> It’s built to work on Mac OS X, but it uses cross-platform libraries  
> so it should be fairly easy to port to other platforms.  The source  
> code is here [2] and below are some screenshots [1]
>
> -- Duane Johnson
> (canadaduane)
>
> ===
>
> [1] http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2009/05/02/silkworm-game-written-in-haskell/
> [2] http://inquirylabs.com/downloads/Silkworm.tgz_______________________________________________
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