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Do you think this style would extend nicely to a larger 2d game? I've been trying to think more functionally when making games, but it seems like games are really just one great big ball of state.

I've seen a bunch of examples of cellular automata and, for some reason, Asteroids - but nothing "bigger". Does anyone know any nicely-written larger projects (I'd love to see a platform game) around?

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Steve Losh is doing a series about making a roguelike in clojure actually- http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/ You might find those useful.

I'm not experienced in game developing nor am I in functional programming, but there seem to be a few things out there. What samrat said and this one (in Haskell): http://joyridelabs.de/

They are also blogging about their development.

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