Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: FunGEn-0.3 simple 2D game engine released
Hi Andre, good to hear from you. On Feb 13, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Andre Wilson Brotto Furtado wrote: This is great, thanks Simon. I'm currently not involved in any haskell projects anymore, but please do keep the ball rolling for FunGEn. I'm currenty exploring how domain-specific development and software product lines can be streamlined for game development. You can check it out at http://sharpludus.codeplex.com. Volunteers to port such a work to Haskell are welcome. Cool. Thanks, -Simon___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] ANN: FunGEn-0.3 simple 2D game engine released
All - inspired by #haskell-game, I'm pleased to announce that FunGEn has been revived as a community project. This makes Andre Furtado's 2002 work available to the new generation of haskell game developers. :) FunGEn (Functional Game Engine) is a platform-independent, BSD- licensed, easy-to-install 2D game engine currently based on OpenGL and GLUT. As of 2011 it is the only general-purpose game engine, and the easiest way to throw together simple 2D games, in Haskell. On the downside, I'm told GLUT can't handle simultaneous keypresses, but the included examples are quite playable. If Andre reads this and would like to get involved, or send corrections to my doc updates, that would be great. In any case, I hope to see your forks and patches making this better. This is also a chance to test darcsden.com's ability to serve as a lighter github. Release: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/FunGEn Code and docs: http://darcsden.com/simon/fungen Original home, more docs: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/fungen Best, -Simon On Feb 10, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Simon Michael wrote: Hi Andre, wman.. you guys haven't been responding, but FYI #haskell- game IRC channel has been revived and I have just been updating FunGEn's status on the wiki a bit: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Games#Game_Engines_and_Libraries http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Game_Development If you're available/interested to join us on the channel, or update the hackage package, you'd be welcome! Otherwise perhaps we'll take a shot at it some time in future. Best, -Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: FunGEn-0.3 simple 2D game engine released
Wow. I've been working almost exclusively with GLUT because it seems to be the only multi-platform graphics toolkit that works for me. This looks great! It certainly seems to take the pain out of texture-loading which always drives me up the wall. The examples seem to be loading OpenGL in order to access GLdouble. Apart from this there seem to be no underlying libraries exposed. Would it be worth re-exporting a type-aliased GLdouble to completely hide the implementation? I will definitely play with this some more :) On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Simon Michael si...@joyful.com wrote: All - inspired by #haskell-game, I'm pleased to announce that FunGEn has been revived as a community project. This makes Andre Furtado's 2002 work available to the new generation of haskell game developers. :) FunGEn (Functional Game Engine) is a platform-independent, BSD-licensed, easy-to-install 2D game engine currently based on OpenGL and GLUT. As of 2011 it is the only general-purpose game engine, and the easiest way to throw together simple 2D games, in Haskell. On the downside, I'm told GLUT can't handle simultaneous keypresses, but the included examples are quite playable. If Andre reads this and would like to get involved, or send corrections to my doc updates, that would be great. In any case, I hope to see your forks and patches making this better. This is also a chance to test darcsden.com's ability to serve as a lighter github. Release: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/FunGEn Code and docs: http://darcsden.com/simon/fungen Original home, more docs: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/fungen Best, -Simon On Feb 10, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Simon Michael wrote: Hi Andre, wman.. you guys haven't been responding, but FYI #haskell-game IRC channel has been revived and I have just been updating FunGEn's status on the wiki a bit: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Games#Game_Engines_and_Libraries http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Game_Development If you're available/interested to join us on the channel, or update the hackage package, you'd be welcome! Otherwise perhaps we'll take a shot at it some time in future. Best, -Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: FunGEn-0.3 simple 2D game engine released
Thanks Lyndon, On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Lyndon Maydwell wrote: I've been working almost exclusively with GLUT because it seems to be the only multi-platform graphics toolkit that works for me. This looks great! It certainly seems to take the pain out of texture-loading which always drives me up the wall. Great. The examples seem to be loading OpenGL in order to access GLdouble. Apart from this there seem to be no underlying libraries exposed. Would it be worth re-exporting a type-aliased GLdouble to completely hide the implementation? FunGEn previously used Double there, and I fixed it without full understanding to get things building (guessing maybe it was right to use the GL types for efficiency). You can darcs send a patch, or much better, fork the repo on darcsden so I/we can preview/pull it from there. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: FunGEn-0.3 simple 2D game engine released
Would it be worth re-exporting a type-aliased GLdouble to completely hide the implementation? PS, and now I understand more clearly - yes, you're quite right. I meant to do that. Perhaps some day it could use a graphics-and-IO abstraction layer (like HaskGame). ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: FunGEn-0.3 simple 2D game engine released
I've never used darcsden before. I take it your username is simon? On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Simon Michael si...@joyful.com wrote: Would it be worth re-exporting a type-aliased GLdouble to completely hide the implementation? PS, and now I understand more clearly - yes, you're quite right. I meant to do that. Perhaps some day it could use a graphics-and-IO abstraction layer (like HaskGame). ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
