basile-henry / infinisweep

A Minesweeper clone with infinite grid written in Haskell.

InfiniSweep

InfiniSweep is a clone of the famous Minesweeper game written in Haskell. It features an infinite grid which means that a game could (in theory) go on forever.

This game is played in a terminal using ncurses to render it.

Download static binary

Download latest release, make executable and then play!

For example:

wget https://github.com/basile-henry/infinisweep/releases/download/v1.0.0/infinisweep-x86_64-linux-static
chmod +x infinisweep-x86_64-linux-static

How to play

With the following options:

Usage: infinisweep [-a|--auto-open] [-d|--density PERCENT]

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  -a,--auto-open           Open cells automatically (as per flags/markers)
  -d,--density PERCENT     Density of the minefield, as a percentage

When a cell in the grid is opened it either contains a mine and therefore explodes (Game Over) or will show the player the number of mines in the neighbouring cells (there are 8 neighbouring cells).

• To move around the grid use:
• Arrow keys (←, ↑, ↓, →)
• W, A, S, D
• HJKLYUBN (H - left, J - down, K - up, L - right, Y - up left, U - up right, B - down left, N - down right)
• Number pad (1 - down left, 2 - down, 3 - down right, 4 - left, 6 - right, 7 - up left, 8 - up, 9 - up right, 5 - mark, 0 - open)
• Press space or 0 to open a cell.
• Press M, E, or 5 to mark a cell (if you think it contains a mine).
• Press Q to quit the game.
• Press R to start a new game.

If an open cell is satisfied (the number of mines the cell indicates matches the number of markers) you can click it (with space) and it will open all the remaining closed cells surrounding it that aren't marked. If you select the auto mode this behaviour is completely automated.

How to build from source

For cabal and stack the C library libncursesw5-dev needs to be installed separately. On Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libncursesw-dev

Cabal

cabal new-build

Stack

stack setup
stack build

Nix

nix build 

How to run the game

Cabal

cabal new-exec -- infinisweep

Stack

stack exec -- infinisweep

Nix

result/bin/infinisweep

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2016 Basile Henry & David Eichmann
Copyright (c) 2018 Basile Henry & Nathan van Doorn
Copyright (c) 2021-2022 Basile Henry