Applications and libraries/Games

This page contains a list of libraries and tools in a certain category. For a comprehensive list of such pages, see Applications and libraries.

See also: Game Development

Games

babylon

An implementation of a simple 2-player board game. Uses wxHaskell.

Defend The King from Forces of Different

A simple multiplayer real time strategy game.

Endless Cavern

A 2D procedurally-generated cave exploration game.

Foo

Foo (abbreviation from football) is a playing machine of Paper Soccer, a pencil and paper game for two players. It contains a simple interface using HOpenGL library and provides many playing algorithms.

Frag

Frag is a 3D first person shooting game written in Haskell, by Mun Hon Cheong. It uses Yampa, Quake 3 BSP level format and OpenGL. It is licensed under the GPL.

GeBoP

The General Boardgames Player, offers a set of board games: Ataxx, Bamp, Halma, Hez, Kram, Nim, Reversi, TicTacToe, and Zenix. It uses wxHaskell.

Haskell in Space

An asteroid like game

Hedgewars

A turn-based artillery game. The game server is written in Haskell.

Hetris

ASCII tetris in Haskell

hfiar

Four in a Row in Haskell. Uses wxHaskell.

hinvaders

A simple ANSI-graphics space invaders written entirely in Haskell 98.

hsChess

Chess AI engine

LambdaChess

GTK chess client

LambdaHack

A small roguelike game with a flexible engine. GTK and terminal front-ends.

Lost Cities

A two-player card game where each player tries to mount profitable expeditions. It uses wxHaskell.

Mage

Nethack clone written in Haskell (The web site have this mage-1.0.pre35.tar.gz file containing an older version that was using Data.FiniteMap.) There seems to be a problem with newer curses library even with the more recent 1.1.0 version.

MazesOfMonad

Role-Playing Game (influenced by Nethack), complete and fully playable. Console mode only.

Monadius

Monadius is a shoot 'em up with the selection bar power-up system for Windows, written in Haskell (now on Hackage)

Nario

A Super Mario clone, using an SDL binding different from the one in Hackage: [1]

Octane Mech

Octane Mech, OpenGL Haskell based mech game

OpenGL Tetris

Tetris in Haskell with OpenGL

Paratrooper

Paratrooper is a simple action game that runs on Windows and is written in literate Haskell.

Raincat

2D puzzle game featuring a fuzzy little cat (uses GLUT)

Roguestar

Roguestar is a science fiction adventure role playing game using Haskell and OpenGL.

Shu-thing

A 2-D vector graphics upwards-scrolling keyboard-controlled shooter. You shoot the enemies while dodging their bullets until you reach and defeat the enemy.

TriHs (tar.gz)

A 1- or 2-player Tetris game using Gtk2Hs and Cairo.

wxAsteroids

Your space ship enters an asteroid belt, try to avoid collisions! wxAsteroids is based on wxHaskell.

Xiangqiboard

An implementation of xiangqi for Unix, using gtk2hs + cairo

Unfinished/in-progress games

Bloodknight

An action RPG for mobile devices

game-1.0.tar.gz

An attempt on a "five-in-a-row"-program

haskell-game-of-life

Conway's Game of Life

HsLife

A Haskell implementation of hashlife. It uses GLUT.

Nikki and the Robots

A puzzle, platformer game

Game Engines and Libraries

FunGEn

FunGEn (Functional Game Engine) is a platform-independent 2D OpenGL-based BSD-licensed game engine, released in 2002 and recently revived. As of 2011 it's the only general-purpose game engine, and the quickest way to throw together simple 2D games, in Haskell. Its light dependencies make it easy to install, however GLUT is reputed to be unsuitable for simultaneous keypresses. Forks and patches welcome!

Hipmunk

Hipmunk: A Haskell binding for Chipmunk. Chipmunk is a fast, simple, portable, 2D physics engine. It is completely self-contained. See also HipmunkPlayground: a simple OpenGL program that allows you to see some of Hipmunk's functions in action.

Hpysics

Hpysics is a physics engine written using Data Parallel Haskell during Google Summer of Code 2008.

Bullet

A wrapper for the Bullet physics engine.

game-tree

game-tree is a purely functional library for searching game trees - useful for zero-sum two player games.

IrrHaskell

Haskell binding to the Irrlicht game engine. The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine

LambdaCube

LambdaCube is a 3D rendering engine entirely written in Haskell. The main goal of this project is to provide a modern and feature rich graphical backend for various Haskell projects, and in the long run it is intended to be a practical solution even for serious purposes.

graphics-drawingcombinators-example

An example of using graphics-drawingcombinators on Mac OSX, to ease getting started on that platform.

Unfinished/in-progress game engines/libraries

HaskGame

An incomplete graphics system abstraction layer.

hsgame

A framework for network games