Disclaimer:
I'm no F# expert. I've used F# at work before but only in a single project for lexing and parsing a simple domain specific language (and the bulk of that work was carried out by a colleague). So some of this code may stink, feel free to let me know about it :¬)
I got up this morning and thought: I fancy mucking around with some F#, I know I'll make a little game.
After some Googling I was left a little disappointed when I found no good, simple, tutorials.
It's been about a year since I've done any F# so I'm as good as a newbie again and needed some hand-holding. Alas that wasn't going to happen.
So my first mission was to get hold of a simple input and graphics API ... Having used SDL some time ago with C++ I went hunting for a .NET wrapper and handily enough found this:
link SDL.Net
Set up:
All you need to do (at least on a Windows box with Visual Studio) is download SDL.NET, run the exe, and add a reference via solution explorer.
Code:
Now, as you can see, this code is not a "game".
It simply blits a background to the screen, overlays a sprite and moves him around in response to the left and right arrow keys... VERY not-a-game indeed.
But it will hopefully give anyone reading this the simple first steps towards using SDL.NET with F#.
The code also uses mutable state so is not as purely functional as I would have liked.
