I'm Bryan Edds, an independent software researcher who is spear-heading practical research into functional programming in the domain of game development, particularly in terms of the open source Nu Game Engine.

My life goal since early adulthood has been to ameliorate what I see as unnecessary expense and, frankly, human suffering involved in the game programming process. Back around 2012, functional programming appeared to me to be the best available tool for attacking the primary problem in game development - software complexity. Since then, I've spent all my non-commercial game development time working on the now mature 2D and 3D Nu Game Engine to prove the viability and efficacy of the functional approach. It was extremely fortunate that F# as a language had become a reasonably mature language around the time I started working on Nu, so that was and continues to be the primary platform for my open source research.

Funding this github account goes toward two things - 1) funding development of the Nu Game Engine and 2) funding the development of its shared F# library, Prime.

Sponsorship is necessary because after ten years of self-funding, the development of these two projects have become completely resource-bound. This is why I'm now asking for donations via the github sponsorship program, not just from users, but from anyone who would like to help realize a future where the game programming can be liberated from the combinatoric complexity inherent in the object-oriented style.