LambdaHack

LambdaHack
Library project
Developer	Andres Löh, Mikolaj Konarski
Released	Apr 12, 2008
Updated	Dec 15, 2013 (0.2.10.6)
Status	Alpha
Licensing	BSD3 (Free Software)
P. Language	Haskell
Platforms	Linux, OSX, Windows
Dependencies	as specified on the Hackage page
Official site of LambdaHack

This is an alpha release of LambdaHack, a game engine library for roguelike games of arbitrary theme, size and complexity, packaged together with a small example dungeon crawler. When completed, the engine will let you specify content to be procedurally generated, define the AI behaviour on top of the generic content-independent rules and compile a ready-to-play game binary, using either the supplied or a custom-made main loop. Several frontends are available (GTK is the default) and many other generic engine components are easily overridden, but the fundamental source of flexibility lies in the strict and type-safe separation of code and content and of clients (human and AI-controlled) and server.

This is a minor release, primarily intended to fix broken vty an curses frontends and an unrelated game crash, as well as broken builds on hackage and travis. Changes since 0.2.10 are mostly unrelated to gameplay: overhauled dungeon generation code and the use of the external library assert-failure for expressing assertions and error messages. Upcoming features: new and improved frontends, improved AI (pathfinding, autoexplore, better ranged combat), dynamic light sources, explosions, player action undo/redo, completely redesigned UI. Long term goals are focused on procedural content generation and include in-game content creation, auto-balancing and persistent content modification based on player behaviour.

A larger game that depends on the LambdaHack library is Allure of the Stars.

LambdaHack can be compiled using the cabal tool from the LambdaHack package available at its Hackage page.