pioneers/README.md

Pioneers

A Settlers II inspired game written in Haskell

Development-Status

Bugtracker/Wiki: http://redmine.pwning.de/projects/pioneers

Compiling

1. Clone this repository
2. Set up cabal-sandbox

   $ cabal sandbox init
   $ cd deps
   $ ./getDeps.sh
   $ cd ..
   $ cabal sandbox add-source deps/hsSDL2
   

3. install libraries sudo apt-get install libsdl2 - make sure libsdl2 is in version 2.0.1+ (shipped with Ubuntu since 14.04)
4. install dependencies cabal install --only-dependencies
5. build cabal build
6. run ./Pioneers

Step 2 is likely to break in the future due to restructuring in hsSDL2. This will be updated accordingly then.

Features

Note, that most of it is just planned and due to change.

• modern OpenGL3.x-Engine
• themeable with different Cultures
• rock-solid Multiplayer (no desync, just slightly more lag in case of resync)

Why Haskell?

• There are not enough good games written in functional languages.
• More robust and easier to reason about lateron