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fumieval / free-game

The free game engine
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/free-game
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Time abstraction #30

Open fumieval opened 10 years ago

fumieval commented 10 years ago

It is very unreasonable to put input events and window refreshing and an audio output into the tick-based timeline.

I like to make it possible to implement rhythm games, or digital audio workstations.

fumieval commented 10 years ago

Fuuzetsu commented 10 years ago

I'm actually implementing a rhythm game (without sound for now) so this would be great. Is this planned for version 1.2?

fumieval commented 10 years ago

The implementation of this idea has moved to call package and free-game is going to be its plugin. I verified that call is capable of creating rhythm games.

Fuuzetsu commented 10 years ago

So will call be the main package to use now?

fumieval commented 10 years ago

Yes, especially if we're writing a rhythm game. For time-insensitive applications, free-game is the still preferred one.

Fuuzetsu commented 10 years ago

OK, when will there be a release?

madjestic commented 9 years ago

It's sounds like a FRP to me, or, more specifically, netwire. Though the high-level concept of FRP seems fairly clear (event->Push/Pull), I never managed to wrap my head around netwire, and I ran into limitations of reactive-banana fairly soon. It's amazing to be here and find a way to solve it, working through a practical problem.

madjestic commented 9 years ago

Also, how would time-abstraction fit into a time-critical concept? As far as I understand, we are talking about an event-driven process here. If we are using a more traditional loop for a frame-driven process, how can time work with both concepts?

fumieval commented 9 years ago

call lets us combine event handlers (regarding graphic/audio or even state updates as events), allowing them communicate. Unfortunately it's not FRP I think.

A traditional frame loop will be available by transforming a coroutine into an event handler.

madjestic commented 9 years ago

"A traditional frame loop will be available by transforming a coroutine into an event handler." Could you explain that in a bit longer than 1 sentence? It is not immediately clear for me what "transforming a coroutine into an event handler" means.

Thanks