Finite Improbability

After spending some time thinking about what is going wrong with this game, I came to two conclusions:

1. Repl-based development doesn’t work for me. I ended up spending a lot of time working my way into an inconsistent game state without know it, so most of my time savings were spent figuring out how I’d borked things on the next restart.

2. Haskell is just too damn interesting. Every time I tried to work on the project I found myself goofing off there.

Obviously, these points say much more about me than the tools I was using, but the simple fact was that I still wasn’t getting much done. I actually really liked how clean the more functional bits of my original game code were, so I’m taking the plunge and switching to Haskell for my game.

Since I’ve been wanting to dig deep into Haskell for a while this should really push me there. So far just trying to express something as simple as “a game unit can possibly target something targettable” has been a deeper rabbit hole than I thought, and now that I think about it my current solution won’t work. Luckily the new one is simpler.

I’m well aware that this will probably mean the death of this game, but it already seemed to be in critical condition, and either way the learning experience would be good. Stay tuned to see what happens.