nmkp

nmkp is a small game written in Haskell for Paddle's 2nd Hackathon, which took place on March 2nd of 2018. It was originally a single file application, not including assets.

Notes

• Haskell's sum types made adding states to the game immensely simple. Even late into the hackathon, adding a new screen or more complex feature was a breeze, and hardly ever affecting any other functionality. This was mainly due to the errors and warnings the compiler displays when building the application, i.e. mentioning when a case is unimplemented.
• Working with record types often resulted in immensely long parameters, e.g. world@World{state = state, battle = Just battle, …}. A few syntactic extensions were tried out to alleviate this problem, although the situation could still be improved, at least partially, using better datatypes, e.g. World | WorldBattle.

Credit

• "Game Over" screen thanks to https://eathertrainer.deviantart.com/art/GAME-OVER-Pokemon-Red-Green-and-Blue-274456696
• All other sprites thanks to https://www.spriters-resource.com/