shu-thing

A vector shooter game

Original notes from package authors:

Find these notes in their darcs repo.

Shu-thing for Windows(OpenGL)

Presented by Hideyuki Tanaka & Takayuki Muranushi

** How to Install

Extract shu-thing.zip Then execute shu-thing.exe To play Shu-thing, you need OpenGL installed into your computer.

** Operation

• move arrow keys
• shot z
• exit q; you can also click for a menu

** Rules

Control the Hypermonadic space fighter Dodecahedron, avoid showering bullets, exterminate enemy forces, and destroy the great enemy carrier that awaits you at the end of the stage. You are the last hope of survival of human race.

You are equipped with the forcefield that can endure 3 bullets. You lose your ship if shot after the forcefield ran out of power. Be careful because you got nothing like invincibilities, remains, or bombers. Hence you immediately die if you charge into a cloud of bullets, while this operation will save your ship with only 1 point of damage in many other games.

Only enemy bullets, not enemy bodies, are harming.

** Special Thanks

Shu-thing is written in Haskell, compiled by Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.4 The Haskell Home Page http://www.haskell.org/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler http://www.haskell.org/ghc/

uses OpenGL for drawing. http://www.opengl.org/

Our installation instructions:

We had a lot of trouble getting this working in different Linux environments, mainly NixOS and Ubuntu 16.04, due mainly to issues with native dependencies. Downloading and trying to run the executable as they say to do did not work on any of our machines initially.

First we did successfully build it with cabal version 1.2.2 on a machine running Ubuntu 16.04:

$ cabal configure
$ cabal install
$ ./dist/build/shu-thing/shu-thing

That may be all you need to do. However, this broke for us at some point.

Adding Stack + Nix

In looking for a more reproducible build process, we initialized Stack, adding a stack.yaml file, to which we added

nix:
  packages:
    - mesa
    - mesa_glu
    - freeglut

On a machine running NixOS, you should be able to get it running with this:

$ stack build
$ stack exec -- shu-thing

On an Ubuntu machine, you seem to have to first build with Nix, then without Nix and execute without Nix, so it looks like this:

$ stack build
$ stack build --no-nix
$ stack exec --no-nix -- shu-thing

If you do not have Nix enabled in your global (or this project's) Stack configuration, then you may need to add a flag to get it to build with Nix the first time, so those commands above would look like this:

$ stack build --nix
$ stack build --no-nix
$ stack exec --no-nix -- shu-thing

Best of luck staying alive in the game. We would welcome additions to these installation instructions for different environments.