Course:CPSC312-2018-Minesweeper

Minesweeper

Gareth Antle, Abel Waller

We will be implementing classic minesweeper in Haskell, with a working graphical UI that can take multiple forms of mouse input.

We would like to implement at least one of the following:

A board that scales to an arbitrary size, with an arbitrary number of mines both selected by the user
A board which is randomly populated with mines, according to a user specified difficulty
A limit to the amount of time or the number of moves the player has to solve the game.

The hardest part, initially, was working with external libraries in Haskell. The graphical library we initially chose, GTK, has a large community and a number of detailed installation guides, but they all seemed to be written for older versions of GHC and required their own extensive collection of external C++ libraries.
Once we scaled down and decided against graphics, the project became more manageable
Working with Haskell was interesting for minesweeper - many of the things we thought would be difficult turned out to be very easy, and vice versa.