The Case of the Jade Swan and the Haskell Wizard

The Office of the Haskell Wizard
On the chase
An encounter with JavaScript
Throwing ~~exceptions~~ punches
A treasure is found

We made a point-and-click adventure game engine, and a full game in said engine.

Premise

A barmy collection of anthropomorphised programming languages clash in a nail-biting exchange of wit and HTTP packets.

Play as the classic detective Ida Knowe, known for her knack for tracking nick-nacks.

Tech Stack

A homemade Pygame tool allows us to easily draw clickable areas on images, and associate them -- using a non-trivial system of conditions and branches -- with dialogue, items, and actions. This tool generates JSON descriptors and HTML files. In this way, the "final" game is a plain HTTP server providing static files. Javascript exists too.

Enjoy!

Built With

Submitted to

HackNotts 24
- Winner Fancy Dress

Created by

I worked on my modelling skills as a wizard. I also wrote some of the Python code to generate the static site, and did a lot of the frontend. And general other little bits and pieces.

Zac Garby
PhD student in the FP lab at Nottingham. Average hackathon enjoyer.
Jacob Garby
Caleb Millner

Updates

Zac Garby started this project — Oct 27, 2024 06:48 AM EDT

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