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Using Clean for Platform Games

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Implementation of Functional Languages (IFL 1999)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1868))

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In this paper, a game library for Concurrent Clean is described, specially designed for parallax scrolling platform games. Our goal is to make game programming easier by letting the programmer specify what a game should do, rather than program how it works. By integrating this library with tools for designing bitmaps and levels, it is possible to create complete games in only a fraction of the time it would take to write such games from scratch. At the moment, the library is only available for the Windows platform, but it should not be too difficult to port the low-level functions to other platforms. This may eventually provide an easy way to create games that run on several platforms.

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  1. Computing Science Institute, University of Nijmegen, 1 Toernooiveld, 6525 ED, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Mike Wiering, Peter Achten & Rinus Plasmeijer

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  1. Software Technology, Nijmegen Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Pieter Koopman

  2. Computer Science Department, UCL, WC1E 6BT, London

    Chris Clack

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Wiering, M., Achten, P., Plasmeijer, R. (2000). Using Clean for Platform Games. In: Koopman, P., Clack, C. (eds) Implementation of Functional Languages. IFL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1868. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722298_1

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