Elm Pixel Boulder Game

The Elm Pixel Boulder Game is a bit "out-of-hand" experiment to write a game in a pure functional language. I tried to apply some tricks out of the books like the Actor-Component system which allows you to configure the entities in assets.

For years I wanted to build a led table like this one (not mine). Which I would probably do on a raspberry pi in Python. One of the games I would like to make for it is the old school Boulder Dash. And I thought, if I could make Boulder Dash in a pure functional language like Elm. Then I could probably write about any game you can create in a 12 by 12 pixels grid in Python.

This is also the reason why its all pixel-ish (the menu and some original levels).

When I showed people this they where like "mhe" until I decided to add images. Suddenly it really looked like the old Boulder Dash!

Play the game!

You can play the game at github pages.

https://jordymoos.github.io/elm-pixel-boulder-game/?startLevel=official%2F001&hideDebug=1

Easy level editor

You can create and play your own levels in the visual editor.

And then play your own level!

https://jordymoos.github.io/elm-pixel-boulder-game/?hideDebug=1

Advanced level editor

If you do not like the default configuration then you can also use the advanced editor to configure more of your game!

https://jordymoos.github.io/elm-pixel-boulder-game/?editorMode=advanced

Development

Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/JordyMoos/elm-pixel-boulder-game.git

Go into the directory.

cd elm-pixel-boulder-game

Install the dependencies.

npm install

Run the local version.

npm start

And play it in your browser at localhost:3000

Create a prod build

After installing the dependencies you can also create a production build.

npm run prod

Which will create the production version in the ./dist folder.