This week, instead of a post on DSELs, I’m going to show what I’ve been working on. It’s my first, real foray into Haskell: a game implementation. Some day soon I hope to make my implementation available on the Haskell libraries repository (Hackage).
Thanks goes to the folk at the Haskell irc channel #haskell who helped me when I got stuck. Special mention goes to Saizan for his everlasting patience.
Edit:
Some more details:
The game is being played by me in single player mode. The other parts shown are WIP. The graphics library used if anyone is interested is Gtk2hs.
Edit 2:
In light of a comment by one of the visitors of the blog (which was also a nagging worry of mine), and some searching on my side I decided to alter the game’s name and certain minor features to prevent copyright problems. I have uploaded a new video which reflects these changes.
Edit 3:
4Blocks code released! Check here and here for more info! 🙂
That is sick!
is it implemented using a tetris DSL?
Well no, that is me playing. I haven’t mentioned DSLs so far. But lets say its something I am working on. 😛
keep it up!!
Great! Just one remark: there is no such thing as a mirc channel, it’s an irc channel, and mirc is just one of the software that enables you tu use irc.
Oops you’re right xD Its a bad habit I have from back when I used to use that software! Fixing the post 🙂
Hi congratulations !! it looks neat!
Will you share the code ??
Thanks!
Sometime in the future I shall, but right now its something I am working on.
Code shared!
https://andrewcalleja.com/2010/05/07/4blocks-source-code/
You should be careful about using the name “Tetris”. The Tetris Company is notorious for upholding its trademark on it.
Yes I was afraid of this. I shall remedy this.
I’m glad you did. 🙂 You wouldn’t be the first open source or freeware developer to receive nasty cease and desist letters. Anyhow, game looks like it’s coming along very nicely. I love statically typed languages, but the typing in Haskell always gives me headaches. Couldn’t imagine the complexity of the typing in a simple game like this. Kudos!
Honestly, Haskell’s typing was not a problem to me at all when creating this game. If anything it helped me write safer code, and with less debugging time 🙂
Here was my take, would be interesting to compare implementation differences.
http://myawesomeblag.blogspot.com/2007/03/opengl-tetris-in-haskell.html
Hi Jim 🙂 Checkout the code here: https://andrewcalleja.com/2010/05/07/4blocks-source-code/
it is very nice!
thanks 🙂