Building a game in a day
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This document discusses building a game in a day using F# and cross-platform game engines. It provides examples of games that have been created in F# such as a Quake 3 mod and an Xbox Live Arcade game. It also discusses tools for building games in F#, including MonoGame as a successor to XNA. The document concludes with describing a game called The Prismer that was built in 11 hours by a group using F# and tools like Visual Studio and Paint.Net.
Building a game in a day
- 1. BUILDING A GAME IN A DAY PhillipTrelford, F#unctional Londoners, 2013
- 2. DON’T GAMES PROGRAMMERS USE C++? YES Engines Graphics Sound Physics NO Scripts AI Interaction Tools
- 3. DOTHEY REGRET IT? Veteran Games Programmer John Carmack extolling the virtues of functional programming at QuakeCon
- 4. QUAKE 3 – F# SCRIPT Will Smith @TIHanTime6h @brandewinder @7sharp9 Finally got something going in #FSharp #Quake3. Messing around with the weapon position. :) pic.twitter.com/zAZ439Kdch
- 5. F# FOR PROFIT Functional-first programming for: Time to Market Efficiency Correctness Complexity
- 6. F#TESTIMONIALS order of magnitude increase in productivity, GameSys performance is 10× better than the C++ that it replaces, Aviva Units of measure reduced the chance of errors dramatically, Bing F# is the night vision goggles I need when I go into the dark and attempt to solve previously unsolved problems, Microsoft
- 7. PORTABLE IS DEAD, LONG LIVE MOBILE Android games now out-selling games for Sony and Nintendo handhelds IDC and App Annie's study suggests that iOS and Android combined now generate four times the revenues of dedicated gaming handhelds - Guardian
- 8. CROSS PLATFORM GAME ENGINES Designer-orientated Unity (C#, JavaScript, Boo) PhoneGap (JavaScript) Code-orientated XNA/MonoGame (C#, F#) PyGame (Python) Love (Lua) DirectX (C++)
- 9. RETRO GAME (XNA + F#) 2007
- 10. XBLA: PATH OF GO (XNA + F#)
- 11. XNA IS DEAD Hacking XNA to run onVS 2012 DownloadVS2010 (Express etc.) Install XNA Hack XML config file Install Xbox Live (Windows 8)
- 12. LONG LIVE MONOGAME Develop inVisual Studio (PC) or Xamarin Studio (Mac & PC) Cross Platform iOS Android Windows MacOSX Linux Playstation Mobile Ouya
- 14. COROUTINE ZOMBIES Pseudo Code random_pause 10 while not dead wait_until_in_range 50.0 home_in_on_target 10 F# yield! random_pause 10 while true do yield! wait_range 50 yield! home_in 10
- 15. FLINT EASTWOOD (F# + SILVERLIGHT) Dublin GameCraft 2012 6 hours
- 16. THE PRISMER Kenneth Heine Berle Neil Danson Quinton Coetzee Anton Semenov Malcom Knight ThomasTrelford PhillipTrelford
- 17. TOOLING VS2012 + F# + XNA Paint.Net Gimp MusicMaker Jam Bxfr.Net (Sound effects) DropBox
- 18. 11 HOURS LATER Making games – fun for all the family
Editor's Notes
- #4: http://functionaltalks.org/2013/08/26/john-carmack-thoughts-on-haskell/
- #8: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/21/android-games-outselling-sony-nintendo?CMP=twt_gu
- #13: http://www.monogame.net/
- #15: See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine#Common_usesCode sample:http://fssnip.net/ca
- #18: http://gamecrafty.herokuapp.com/london-august-2013/the-prismer/