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hs-arena is an experimental and simple Zelda-like 2D hack & slay game written in haskell. You have to defeat 4 different types of monsters in each round. After each round the monster become a bit stronger (= have more HPs) and/or increase in numbers.

Installation

It has the following dependencies:

• SDL (0.6.x)
• SDL-image (0.6.x)
• SDL-mixer (0.6.x)
• PSQueue (1.1)
• HaXml (1.20.x)

It was tested on Linux (Arch Linux) and Mac OSX with ghc 6.12

Controls

You must use the following keys to control the game:

• Arrow-Keys: Move left/up/down/right
• Space-Bar: Attack
• z: Switch to previous weapon
• x: Switch to next weapon
• q: Exit the game (during play)