thewrath / elm-webgl

This repository presents a program written with the Elm language which aims to show that Elm is perfectly adapted for game development.

Little Space shooter to discover Elm WebGL ✨

This repository presents a program written with the Elm language which aims to show that Elm is perfectly adapted for game development.

It uses :

• ✔️ Elm programming language
• ✔️ WebGL as rasterization API (for rendering)
• Audio ?
• Text rendering ?
• Tmx loader ?

Very few Elm libraries have been added (except elm-webgl) to show that Elm contains everything that is needed for GD.

Improvements

Many improvements can be made to the code: :

• Mesh management is not very flexible and duplicate code is required for each type of mesh (textured or colored)
• The Player, Enemy and Bullet modules have a lot of duplicate code that could be pooled into the Entity module.
  • The problem here is to achieve polymorphism/inheritance/composition with Elm Records.
• A better API for rendering (in pipeline mode for example, with a list in which we add the entities to render).

Todo

• texture region to load spritesheet instead of single sprite
• HUD for score and life
• Fix page scroll on arrow key down
• Display score
• Wave variant
• Enemy damage
• Explosion animation
• Fix bullet / enemy collision
• Player lives