The Tricks of Game Programming in a Pure Functional Language
summary
Recreated the game Boulder Dash in Elm and built a small browser engine that renders to canvas with requestAnimationFrame and uses a JSON level format. Shows how to implement an update loop, components and pure functions in Elm, with concrete data formats, code patterns, performance optimizations, and a live playable demo (also runs Game of Life and reproduces Advent of Code 2018 Day 15).
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:21Why FP fits games
- 9:00Functional architecture
- 13:16Component-based design
- 18:10Game loop in FP
- 22:49Tools for functional games
- 25:47Performance optimization
- 28:01Dynamic actors
- 30:08Q&A
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