Super Lambda Bros.

Jumping action game on Haskell with local multiplayer.

Authors

• Denis Chernikov
• Maxim Surkov
• Vladislav Kuleykin

Purposes

This project was done during the Programming in Haskell course (primary instructor: Nickolay Kudasov) at Fall 2018 semester at Innopolis University (Innopolis, Russia).

How to run

Run the next command to build the project, it can take some time, as it downloads all dependencies:

> stack build

After you built it once, you can run the game:

> stack run

You'll be greeted with the number of players selection screen, choose the needed amount using W and D buttons, then press Enter and play!

Current settings for players movement:

• Player 1 - W A S D
• Player 2 - ↑ ← ↓ →
• Player 3 - U H J K But they can be changed in src/Handle.hs file, by changing the G.Char or G.SpecialKey for the needed actionP{player_num}_{direction}_BUTTON in handleGame function.

To exit the game press the ESC button.

Screenshots

Implementation

What works

• Animation - the animation of players, enemies and coins are working;
• Basic game mechanics - physics, enemy killing, moving inertia, moving between levels;
• Easy level creation/adding - all the maps are in assets/maps folder and are in convenient txt format, to add new layers, just add a map_{level_num}.txt map file and update the counter in src/App.hs file map show [1..{n_levels} :: Integer]);
• Local multiplayer - local multiplayer up to 3 players (fully customizable), the screen is ajusted to be in the center of their locations, and you can't leave the screen.

What doesn't work

Everything else 😅, like:

• Invincible state during the shrinkage;
• Collision avoidance - when you stuck at the corner of the block, the game should push you out;
• Proper UI;
• Not all animations are present (dying, winning, etc.);
• Not all mechanics from the first level are implemented (sitting, turtles, stars);
• Pipes;
• Proper physics - maybe avoid floating point numbers?

Contribution

Feel free to contribute to this project. We'll be glad for your help.

Copyright notes

All the media content (including graphics & music) is created and owned by Nintendo Company Ltd., the original game produced by this company is called Super Mario Bros. (1985). All rights reserved.

Related materials

• Very detailed description of the original game – https://themushroomkingdom.net/smb_breakdown.shtml
• Original game maps – https://themushroomkingdom.net/maps/smb
• Original game tiles and sprites – http://www.mariomayhem.com/downloads/sprites/super_mario_bros_sprites.php
• Original game animations – https://themushroomkingdom.net/media/smb/anigifs
• Original game music – https://themushroomkingdom.net/media/smb/mid
• Original game SFX – https://themushroomkingdom.net/media/smb/wav
• Original game emulation for comparison – http://emulator.online/nes/super-mario-bros/