@hackage 4Blocks0.2

4Blocks is a tetris-like game implemented in Haskell and Gtk2hs for an AI project.

Some notes:

• The game currently works only with GHC 6.8.3 due to its use of Gtk2hs 0.9.13.
• I haven't tested with anything later but it is likely to fail due the fact that later versions of Gtk2hs have a different system of handling events.
• To make this project compatible with later versions of GHC and Gtk2hs two changes are required:
  • Remove the function "permutations" which was copied from a later GHC base library
  • Alter key-event handling to the version used by later Gtk2hs: some functions (in CommandKeys.hs) were simply introduced in order to disallow some of the keys used in the game (namely rotation) to trigger continuously when a key is held pressed. I believe this kind of behaviour can be managed automatically with Gtk2hs' new event handling mechanism, however I haven't had time to recode accordingly myself.
• I hope to write a patch for this in the near future.

To play:

• [1] Starts a Game
• [P] Pause/Resume Game
• [Esc] Exit Game
• [A]/[Left] Shift Left
• [D]/[Right] Shift Right
• [W]/[Up] Hard Drop
• [S]/[Down] Soft Drop
• [Q]/[,] Rotate Left
• [E]/[.] Rotate Right

Some gameplay features to add in the future:

• T-spin points
• Wall-kick
• Sounds!

Finally:

• Feel free to criticize (constructively) my code as this has been my first real forray into Haskell.
• Email me on drewcalleja@gmail.com :)
• Enjoy!