A simplified Space Invaders game, in Haskell

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#1

Hi all,
Here is a simple video game implemented in Haskell, using gloss and shine: https://gitlab.com/juliendehos/haskell-invaders . The web version can be played online: https://juliendehos.gitlab.io/haskell-invaders .

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#2

Good job! I really like that you can have two implementation (gloss / shine) simply by replacing a few events and display functions.
Unfortunately in the web versioin it looks like there are sections where the display pauses for a second or so while the game continues which can cause the player to lose the game in that instant.

#3

Thank you! Gloss and Shine are nice to use and the functional approach makes it very easy to separate game logic from rendering / input handling.

Thanks for reporting the display pauses. I tried the web version on Linux, with Firefox and Chromium, but I didn’t notice that. Which browser / OS do you use ?

#4

firefox 67 / ubuntu 18.04

#5

note that this doesn’t always happen, i had a few runs where it only stutter a little bit (as is common for web games ime)

#6

Ok thanks. I have a similar config at my work, I’ll try it tomorrow, when I have time.

#7

I tried on another machine and it was quite slow with Firefox, indeed (Chromium was ok). I rebuilt the game using other optimization options but I don’t know if it’s really better.