Functional Reactive Programming For Games

We investigate the effectiveness of functional reactive programming for games. To accomplish this, we clone aa, an existing game, in Elm, a purely functional programming language. We find that functional reactive programming offers an excellent alternative to event driven programming in purely functional languages. Elm still needs more work if it aims to compete with JavaScript libraries. Games, which typically need several inputs at the same time, benefit from the first class status of Signals, which allow them to be combined.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S. in Engineering Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer and Information Science

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Salu, Peter Adewunmi

Contributors dc:contributor

• Conrad Cunningham
• Yixin Chen
• Dawn Wilkins

• Elm
• Events
• Functional Programming
• Functional Reactive Programming
• Games
• Web Games
• Computer Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/442

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1441