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Remove all the cookies on the tray! - The Haskell iOS & Android board game

Home Page: http://magiccookies.haskell.games

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magic-cookies's Introduction

Eat all the cookies on the tray!

Magic Cookies is our first commercial Haskell game. It's available for iOS on the AppStore and for Android on Google Play!

Screen capture of Magic Cookies on iOS

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FAQ

What technology have you used?

The game is written in Haskell. For Android, there's a C and Java wrapper that merely invoke our Haskell main. For iOS, that part is done in objective C. It uses SDL2 for multimedia. The core uses the Functional Reactive Programming library Yampa.

Is your game open source?

Currently, not. We use this repo for issue tracking, so that github users have a quick and easy way to report issues, communicate with us and be notified when they are solved. Some of the (general purpose) code does make it into public and open source projects, though.

You may want to take a look at the Open Source game Haskanoid, which supports Wiimote & Kinect and is also written in Haskell using Yampa.

We do not discard the possibility of making the game open source in the future.

Isn't it a bit strange, to use github for a closed-source project?

Possibly, but Github doesn't have a problem with that (we spoke with them directly before doing it). They offer a great issue tracking system. This way users don't need to create new accounts elsewhere, or give us their email addresses.

We also publish open source code on Github.

Thank you

We'd like to thank:

The Haskell community, for creating such an awesome language and the right tools to build this. In particular, we'd like to thank the creators of the GHC Android and iOS backends.
Github, for letting us host our repos here.
The Programming Haskell Facebook group for their constant praise and encouragement.
Everyone who wrote to us with kind words of support :)
Everyone who Flattred.
Our beta testers, who put up with slow, heavy, boring versions until we got to a reasonably stable version. For privacy reasons we cannot publish their names, but we thank them for all their help.
Those who buy the app. Please buy the app! We only get a very small fee for every customer, so we need to sell thousands to get enough money to pay the bills and publish the next game. We are already working on it!

Copyright

Keera, Keera Studios, the Keera Studios logo, Magic Cookies, the Magic Cookies splash screen, and the Magic Cookies logo are trademarks of Keera Studios Ltd. Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. TWITTER, TWEET, RETWEET and the Twitter logo are trademarks of Twitter, Inc. or its affiliates.

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magic-cookies's Issues

Animations

The visual quality of the game would improve if we had animations. We should definitely look into it.

(via Robin P. on Google Play: http://goo.gl/F2HHRd)

Version in Google App Store not up-to-date

Reduce battery usage

Dmitry Suzdalev (@dimsuz) reports: "battery usage is quite high, stats report it as my most battery hungry app for the whole day, while I played only 14mins. Even book reader didn't score that high. You should look into this."

Back button takes some users out of the game

A user has reported that pressing the back button on Android takes him completely out of the game instead of back to the main menu.

Texts appear clipped

This seems to be SDL2 related. Some texts appear clipped. This applies both to the menu and to the note with the level. (via Robin P. on Google Play: http://goo.gl/F2HHRd Thanks!)

Review licenses and copyright notices

Everything produced at/for/by Keera has copyright Keera Studios. All software, talks, pages, papers, public or private, released or under development, need to have clear copyright and usage licenses.

Level selection menu, input detection, portrait (was: Can I go back to a level that I've already done?)

I wanted to show my kids how to play the game, but was unable to move back to Level 1. I expected to be able to go to the Level page and select one of the levels I've already done, but this did not work; should it have? If not, can it? Or am I missing something blindingly obvious?

This is on a Nexus 7 running Android 5.1

does not start on Asus Zenfone 6 (Intel Atom)

Blank screen.
Logcat:

....
D/dalvikvm(13959): Added shared lib /data/app-lib/uk.co.keera.games.magiccookies-1/libmymain.so 0x43a0e040
D/dalvikvm(13959): No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/app-lib/uk.co.keera.games.magiccookies-1/libmymain.so 0x43a0e040, skipping init
V/keera.cookiesout(13959): onCreate():null
V/keera.cookiesout(13959): onResume()
E/IMGSRV (13959): :0: PVRDRMOpen: TP3, ret = 47
E/IMGSRV (13959): :0: PVRDRMOpen: TP3, ret = 50
E/IMGSRV (13959): :0: PVRDRMOpen: TP3, ret = 51
E/IMGSRV (13959): :0: PVRDRMOpen: TP3, ret = 51
E/IMGSRV (13959): :0: PVRDRMOpen: TP3, ret = 51
E/IMGSRV (13959): :0: PVRDRMOpen: TP3, ret = 53
D/OpenGLRenderer(13959): Enabling debug mode 0
V/keera.cookiesout(13959): surfaceCreated()
V/keera.cookiesout(13959): surfaceChanged()
V/keera.cookiesout(13959): pixel format RGB_565
V/keera.cookiesout(13959): Window soze:720x1280
I/SDL (13959): SDL_Android_Init()
I/SDL (13959): SDL_Android_Init() finished!
D/sdl (13959): Hello
V/keera.cookiesout(13959): calledShowHome()
I/SDL/APP (13959): Added joystick Android Accelerometer with device_id -2147483648

nothing after that point.

The game is great btw :)

Menu button should disappear

The activity options menu button leads nowhere. It should be removed.

Game Idea: no movement limit

Some levels may be too difficult. It might help users if they could play without a limit in the number of moves. (via Robin P. on Google Play: http://goo.gl/F2HHRd Thanks!)

Possible implementations:

Add a meny entry for mode: competition / training.
Difficulty levels (hard/medium/supereasy), that differ in the number of moves allowed, easy being infinitely many.
Moves left can go negative, so that people can keep playing, and the message "Try again" is shown once they finish the level.

This raises the question: does this game need a "hint" button?

Tutorial is too fast

Dmitry Suzdalev (@dimsuz) reports: "Tutorial is too fast, can't catch it."