Re: [Caml-list] ANN: Boulder Dash in OCaml

[Vu Ngoc San <san.vu-ngoc@laposte.net>]

that's really impressive, thanks for this!
for the sound in SDL, why not use tsdl_mixer ?

San

Le 26/11/2024 à 18:38, Andreas Rossberg a écrit :
> Couldn’t let it rest, so I’m (already) announcing version 2 of it — now a much improved, practically feature-complete reimplementation of both Boulder Dash 1 & 2.
>
> Version 2 was an excuse for me to mess around with the OCaml bindings to popular graphics engines, and as a result, it now comes with 3 backends to choose from:
>
> 1. the homely bare OCaml Graphics library (https://github.com/ocaml/graphics),
> 2. the TSDL binding to the SDL2 API (https://github.com/dbuenzli/tsdl),
> 3. the binding to the Raylib engine (https://github.com/tjammer/raylib-ocaml).
>
> The list is in order of increasingly better user experience, for the price of a potentially harder build experience. In theory, all versions should run on Windows, Mac, and Linux, though I was too lazy to test all combinations, and I (or my opam) had trouble installing some of the dependencies on some of the systems.
>
> Features:
>
> * Faithful original physics, graphics, animations, sound, and music
> * Authentic scrolling mechanics combined with dynamic resizing
> * All 40 levels and 5 difficulties of Boulder Dash 1 & 2
> * Pause-and-go mode for relaxed playing
>
> Relative to the previous release, version 2 adds the following niceties:
>
> * Support for SDL and Raylib engines, which allow all of the following
> * Original sound effects and music
> * Original level color schemes
> * Full screen mode
> * Faster graphics
> * Dynamic graphics scaling adjustment
> * Gamepad/joystick support as well as more precise keyboard controls
> * Boulder Dash 2 levels and decoder
>
> Almost looks like a real game now. One from the 80s anyways. :)
>
> Enjoy,
> /Andreas
>
>
>> On 12. Nov 2024, at 16:55, Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.org> wrote:
>>
>> Boulder Dash(*) was my favourite computer game in the 8-bit era, first released on the Atari 400/800 in 1984. Though I never owned an 8-bit machine myself, I had friends that I annoyed enough to let me play it on theirs.
>>
>> As a homage to its 40th anniversary, I put together a fairly faithful clone of the original game, implemented in just a few 100 lines of bare OCaml, with nothing but the homely Graphics library. It should run on Windows, Mac, and Linux, though I was too lazy to test the latter.
>>
>> Features:
>>
>>     • Faithful original physics, graphics, and animations
>>     • Authentic scrolling mechanics combined with dynamic window resizing
>>     • All 20 levels, including intermissions, and 5 difficulties
>>     • Pause-and-go mode for relaxed playing
>>
>> It is open-source here:
>>
>>     https://github.com/rossberg/boulder-dash
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> /Andreas
>>
>> (*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Dash_(video_game)
>>     "Boulder Dash" is a trademark of BBG Entertainment
>>