Check out Elm and then Helm is my recommendation. It's FRP while avoiding the heavy theory.

Hi Quentin, This is precisely what we are doing (see [1, 2, 3, 4] for examples of Haskell on Android). There a few games over there, and videos of a fully-working graphic adventure game IDE and engine. A shorter version of a sample game has been released as open source [5]. It uses SDL for multimedia and Yampa for game logic and physics. You can control it with a mouse or a wiimote. I have a version that can be controlled with a kinect. Yampa has its own mailing list, where real FRP experts are listening. I am not one such expert, but as the current maintainer of Yampa, so you can also email me directly. Our internal version uses SDL2 for graphics, because that works better than SDL1.2 on Android. The repositories for SDL2 are *not* the ones on hackage, but others on github. I can send you the links. On desktop, we are currently running at 720 FPS with a standard machine (over 200FPS more than when the blog posts were published). There is plenty of room for further improvement, both on desktop and on android (currently rendering at 60 FPS). The reason for using SDL instead of OpenGL is that it works well, it provides a higher-level API, and creating 2D graphics is cheaper for us. Nothing stops you from using OpenGL. If you choose to do so, I personally found "Beautiful code, Compelling evidence" [6] to be one of the most amazing introductions to Haskell multimedia I have ever read. Also, make sure you take a look at Nikki and the Robots. You might want to read about the company behind it, or get in touch with them. I heard about Elise Huard. Did she finish the book? I thought she was still working on it. I wish you a busy weekend :) Ivan [1] http://keera.co.uk/blog/2014/08/13/most-inspiring-green-screen-you-will-ever... [2] http://keera.co.uk/blog/2014/10/15/from-60-fps-to-500/ [3] http://keera.co.uk/blog/2014/10/18/par-thy-android-followup-60-fps-500/ [4] https://www.youtube.com/user/KeeraStudios [5] https://github.com/ivanperez-keera/haskanoid [6] http://www.renci.org/wp-content/pub/tutorials/BeautifulCode.pdf On 14 November 2014 09:26, Quentin Le Guennec wrote:

Hello,

We're building a indie game studio with some friends. I am the lead developper and i am planning to write the game logic and graphics in haskell. I would like to know if some of you have some experience in game developpement in haskell, functionnal reactive programming in particular.

Furthermore, knowing which tools/DSL's/libraries i could use and where to get good documentation could really help me. Elise Huard recently wrote an ebook about game programming in haskell, did some of you read it ? Is it worth buying it ?

Thanks for your feedback.

-- Quentin Le Guennec

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