[Haskell-cafe] ANN: FunGEn game engine 0.4.6 released, now on github

[Simon Michael]

PS,

Home: http://joyful.com/fungen

Reddit: 
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskellgamedev/comments/2irtxy/ann_fungen_game_engine_046_released_now_on_github

Examples:

cabal update
[cabal sandbox init]
cabal install FunGEn
fungen-hello; fungen-pong; fungen-worms


On 10/9/14 9:54 AM, Simon Michael wrote:
> FunGEn 0.4.3 was uninstallable from hackage for a long time (and no-one
> noticed). Now, thanks to gelisam's bug report and some further cleanup
> work, I'm happy to announce that FunGEn 0.4.6 is available! I've also
> moved it from darcs hub to github.
>
> FunGEn (Functional Game Engine) is a BSD-licensed, cross-platform,
> OpenGL/GLUT-based, non-FRP game engine/framework written in Haskell.
> Created by Andre Furtado in 2002, it's the oldest Haskell game engine,
> and with very few dependencies and two example games, it's one of the
> easiest ways to get started with Haskell game development. It provides:
>
> - Initialization, updating, removing, rendering and grouping routines
>     for game objects
> - Definition of a game background (or map), including texture-based
>     maps and tile maps
> - Reading and interpretation of the player's keyboard and mouse input
> - Collision detection
> - Time-based functions and predefined game actions
> - Loading and displaying of 24-bit bitmap files
> - Some debugging and game performance evaluation facilities
>
> If you'd like to take over this package and run with it, or co-maintain,
> contact me.
>
> Best!
> -Simon
>