'Play You a Haskell' (PYaH) is an easy to use framework which allows to create 2D ASCII-games for the Bash-terminal in Haskell. For example, you can create game stories as multiple related 'chapters' with 'prgoram-holes', which shall be filled by the player in order to proceed into the next chapter. Thus, the usage of this framework is generally divided into two perspectives:
- The story-creator perspective: Modeling the story by creating chapters with the help of the provided features from the framework
- The player perspective: Using PYaH to access and play an existing story, fulfilling the story-given tasks
The framework shall encourage people to learn Haskell in a joyful way by creating the possibility to embed Haskell-programming tasks in games. Simultaneously, it shall be easy to create stories to motivate story-creators to program intersting storylines for the palyers. This is why 'Play You a Haskell' offers a game environment with basic physics and a variety of game features like tripwires, an inventory and more out of the box.
Currently, PYaH can only be used within the GHCi. Compiling it and executing the binaries currently causes some visual bugs. Furthermore, Haskell Stack is required, as PYaH was written as a Haskell Stack project.
You install PYaH by simply cloning this repository:
git clone https://github.com/andreasMazur/PlayYouAHaskell.git
Afterwards you start stack from the root directory of the project:
../PlayYouAHaskell> stack ghci
Then, you can hide the loaded Haskell modules within the GHCi-prompt:
ListOfManyModules> :set prompt ">"
Finally, one starts the game by executing the main-function:
> main
Now you are located in the main menu of PYaH, where you can select to load or start a new game.
PYaH is still under developement. Soon, an example story line will be available that shall illustrate how to create a new story and what features are currently available.