----------------------- FunGEn Functional Game Engine ----------------------- I am pleased to announce the first release of FunGEn, a 2D platform-independent game engine implemented in and for Haskell, using HOpenGL. Actually, FunGEn supports: * 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 intepretation of the player's keyboard input; * Collision detection; * Time-based functions and pre-defined game actions; * Loading and displaying of 24-bit bitmap files; * Some debugging and game performance evaluation facilities; * Sound support (actually for windows platforms only... :-[ ) You can download and find more info about FunGEn in: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/fungen Your feedback is highly welcome! Nice coding... -- Andre W B Furtado