I guess Im thinking of a overarching pattern for creating games in a functional language similar to http://www.acims.arizona.edu/PUBLICATIONS/PDF/JeffPlummerMSthesis_wo_Appendix.pdf .
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ben Christy <ben.chri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Assuming Haskell is ready has any work gone into creating design patterns > or the like. One of the biggest problems is ALL of the literature regarding > game programming is written in an imperative style. My goal for learning > Haskell is to make a hobby game written in a Functional language but I am at > a loss how to go about it. I an imperative language I would set up a central > entity management system and then have subsystems register with it and > either transform the entities such as AI or user interface or do something > with them IE graphics. This paradigm just will not work as far as I can > imagine in Haskell. > > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Jake McArthur <jake.mcart...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 05/23/2010 02:17 PM, Peter Verswyvelen wrote: >> >>> IMO: For AAA game programming? Definitely not. >>> >> >> Why not? I suppose it may depend on your definition of "AAA," since there >> doesn't seem to be any consensus on it. I have seen it mean various >> combinations of the following, but rarely, if ever, all of them: >> >> * Big development budget >> * Big marketing budget >> * High quality >> * Large number of sales and/or high revenue >> * High hardware requirements >> * Released by one of a small group of accepted "AAA" publishers >> >> While I think it's very unlikely that the last one will happen any time >> soon, I don't see any reason that Haskell and/or FRP (or as I now prefer to >> call my research in the area, Denotative Continuous-Time Programming, or >> DCTP) inherently can't be a major part of the development of a game that >> fits any of the definitions in the list. >> >> I suppose DCTP is not itself *ready* for somebody to risk a business >> investment on it, although it may be in the future, but Haskell as a whole >> would not be all that risky, in my opinion. >> >> - Jake >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > >
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