Notakto: A Haskell game with Apecs and Raylib
- November 20, 2022
- 88 Minutes
My previous post on Apecs was very well received, but I've seen a lot of people using the now-out-of-date code and somewhat struggling. Time to dive back in!
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Laplace's rule of succession
- July 20, 2022
- 8 Minutes
I find myself talking to many people about this bit of maths simply because I've actually been able to apply it in my life and work. Hopefully in this post I can explain how!
Voronoi.haxe
- April 19, 2022
- 12 Minutes
After spending a while wandering the internet in search of something new to learn, I found something I somehow missed: the language, Haxe, and the game framework, Heaps. This was the result of my learning.
What is Nix?
- December 20, 2021
- 5 Minutes
I seem to be nixifying everything, from my operating system to my website. I wanted to go into a bit of detail about what it's like working with Nix.
Hexagonal.hs
- June 25, 2020
- 12 Minutes
I've been playing around with Haskell for quite a while and I wanted to have a play around with a purely-functional graphics pipeline.
4D Geometry Viewer
- May 3, 2020
- 4 Minutes
Developing a game that uses the fourth dimension is rarely discussed, if discussed at all. I created an interactive visualisation of 4D geometry to learn how to apply 3D rendering concepts to higher dimensions.
Hogs of War: Level Editor
- March 23, 2020
- 6 Minutes
A cross-platform tool that allows for the visualisation and manipulation of Hogs of War map files.
Street Fighter Clone
- November 29, 2019
- 2 Minutes
A university assignment where the goal was to study and recreate Street Fighter's mechanics in our own clone of the game.
Clojure: Another functional programming language
- July 20, 2019
- 12 Minutes
I've always been aware of the Lisp language, but always been afraid to dive in. However, after reading 'Clojure for the brave and true', I now recognise Clojure as a simple, pleasant and powerful language.
Relocate Engine
- April 28, 2019
- 21 Minutes
Relocate is a physics is an experiment with Box2D physics, Lua scripting, ImGui debugging and the SFML framework, and has been used as a starting point for a few of my other C++ projects.
SimpleRoguelike.hs
- March 8, 2019
- 6 Minutes
My first attempt at game development in the functional language, Haskell, as well as a description of the challenges I had to overcome to get things working.
An Introduction to game development in Haskell using Apecs
- September 10, 2018
- 50 Minutes
There have been so many attempts to pioneer gamedev in Haskell, and yet still no commercial releases. In this post I hope to clear the air a little bit and encourage new developers to try Haskell.
Of Boxes and Threads: Game development in Haskell
- June 9, 2018
- 20 Minutes
My experiences of making a game in Haskell and how I think it's is a pioneering process. Despite a wiki and subreddit dedicated to gamedev in Haskell, not many people have actually succeeded making anything close to current games.
What even is Haskell?
- March 18, 2018
- 30 Minutes
In this post, I'd like to write a beginner-friendly summary in layman's terms with regards to why I have taken such an interest in a language I've only started using. Hopefully this will inspire some people to consider using alternate languages to the ones they're used to.
My First ECS
- May 5, 2017
- 2 Minutes
This project was more of an exploration than anything else. I wanted to make an engine which could have its data serialised and manipulated with scripts rather than hard code.
Alacrity Redux
- April 24, 2017
- 0 Minutes
Alacrity was really successful, but I didn't like the fact that it wasn't cross platform. To test myself even further I wanted to try porting it to OpenGL.
