http://blog.downstairspeople.org Roguestar, Haskell, and Fun Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:19:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is what I imagine a very cold (~2000K) red star might look like at sunrise. I'm not sure if it matters whether it is a red giant or red dwarf -- the system tries to size the star semi-realistically according to the temperature of the star and the ... http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/11/04/a-new-dawn/ Here's something I've been spending waaaay too much time on, but I wasn't happy with the results the first try, or the second try, or the third try and . . . I can be very stubborn. This is actually very low resolution. It uses a simple media ray tracer ... http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/10/10/good-morning-planet-haskell/ Roguestar 0.2.2 is up correcting various minor issues, and eliminating the runtime dependency on netpipes. $ cabal update $ cabal install roguestar-engine $ cabal install roguestar-gl $ ~/.cabal/bin/roguestar There are no new gameplay features, although I expect to have some interesting screenshots up in the next week. http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/08/16/ann-roguestar-022/ Website: roguestar.downstairspeople.org Tarball: roguestar-0.2.1.tar.gz Thanks to gwern, roguestar has now been cabalized and is available on hackage. http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/05/17/ann-roguestar-021/ website: http://roguestar.downstairspeople.org darcs 2: darcs get --lazy http://www.downstairspeople.org/darcs/roguestar tarball: http://www.downstairspeople.org/roguestar/roguestar-0.2.tar.gz After much delay, I'm happy to announce Roguestar 0.2. Roguestar is a science fiction themed roguelike (turn-based, chessboard-tiled, role playing) game written in Haskell. ... http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/05/09/ann-roguestar-02/ This is a reptilian standing among some trees. The trees need work. But, this is the last feature for what is going to be the 0.2 release. There is nothing, coding wise, left to do, only documentation. http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/05/05/reptilian-with-trees/ Here's a Caduceator: These squishy aliens descended from swamp-dwelling parasites, and have squishy little suction cup hands. Despite this, they are quite friendly. Only one reptilian race left, and a tree. http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/05/01/parasites/ This highly evolved Ascendant has no need for a physical body. I have two species left. Three if you count trees. http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/04/27/ascendant/ Donald Knuth says: If people do discover nice ways to use the newfangled multithreaded machines, I would expect the discovery to come from people who routinely use literate programming. This is called Haskell. http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/04/27/he-said-she-said/ Here's the next creature, an Androsynth. The head is ok, the body and limbs need work, but I'll tolerate them as they are for now. Androsynths were created to house the disembodied minds of the Ascendents (next), before they evolved beyond the need for any physical form. Based on this guy, ... http://blog.downstairspeople.org/2008/04/24/androsynth/