hwump

This is an implementation of Gregory Yob’s Hunt the Wumpus text based 1972 game. I made this to learn some Haskell.

Building and Running

1. clone the repo
2. install stack
3. cd into the directory of the repository and stack run

How to Play

The game has 20 rooms which form a dodecahedron. Rooms are numbered from 1 to 20 and each room is connected to 3 other rooms.

The game has 3 types hazards which are assigned to random, yet non-overlapping room numbers:

2 bottomless pits

• These are static hazards that do not move.
• The player falls to their death when entered.
• In the original game the Wumpus can go in these rooms because it has “suckers” on its feet. However, I the way I implemented it has the Wumpus avoiding going into rooms with Bottomless pits.

2 super bats

• These are static hazards that do not move.
• They snatch the player to another random room when entered.
• keeps snatching the player until snatched to a non-bat room.
• The Wumpus can go into this room, but won’t be picked up because “it’s too heavy!”

1 Wumpus

• The Wumups is the monster you have to slay to win the game.
• The Wumpus is immobile when the game starts since it is asleep.
• Shooting an arrow on the map or entering the room of the wumpus will wake up the wumpus.
• When awake it has a 75% chance of moving per turn.
• The wumpus also has a 75% chance of moving out of the room when you “bump it” or first enter its room when it is asleep. Think of this as a fight or flight response. If the Wumpus stays to fight, then you lose.

You as the player:

• navigate the map in a sort of fog of war. You can only see the 3 adjacent rooms that you can move to, but you cannot see what they contain
• gain information about the map’s layout via clues from adjacent rooms. These clues come in the form of warnings. When a hazard is adjacent to your room it will print its warning.
• have a bow with 5 magical crooked arrows that can navigate the crooked halls of the cave.
• If you run out of arrows, then game over.

Cheat Mode

I have enabled a cheat mode that displays where everything on the map is and where the Wumpus moves everything it moves. Just pass the argument “cheat” to the game (e.g. stack exec hwump-exe -- cheat).