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.

Games

babylon

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

Bridge

David Roundy originally developed a Bridge game in Haskell and wrote a versioning system for this project. However as time went by, the versioning project Darcs became the more important part of the development and the bridge game was stalled.

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

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. See also hackage and darcs.

hsChess

Chess AI engine

HsLife

A Haskell implementation of hashlife (not complete). It uses GLUT.

LambdaChess

GTK chess client

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

Game Engines and Libraries

FunGEn

FunGEn (Functional Game Engine) is a 2D platform-independent BSD-licensed game engine implemented in and for Haskell in 2002, using HOpenGL. As of 2010, it's still the only pure haskell general-purpose game engine. A more recent version is available on hackage, but this needs updating.

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.

game-tree

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

Further reading

Blog articles

• Purely Functional Retrogames

• Accidentally Introducing Side Effects into Purely Functional Code

Other

• Games in Haskell, the video

Matthew Sackman and Tristan Allwood on developing games with OpenGL in Haskell