fearOfView: A terminal broughlike game about manipulating vision
A constrained roguelike ("broughlike") game played on a 5x5 grid of cells which are regenerated when out of view. Can be compiled for play on a genuine colour terminal using ncurses, or in a pseudo-terminal using bearlibterminal.
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| Name | Description | Default |
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| debug | Enable debug keys | Disabled |
Automatic Flags
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| bear | Build bearlibterminal UI | Disabled |
| curses | Build curses UI | Enabled |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.0.3, 0.1.1.0 |
|---|---|
| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | astar (>=0.3 && <0.4), base (>=4.3 && <5), bearlibterminal (>=0.1 && <0.2), bytestring (>=0.10 && <0.13), containers (>=0.4 && <0.9), directory (>=1.2.3.0 && <1.4), filelock (>=0.1 && <0.2), filepath (>=1.0 && <2.1), hashable (>=1.4 && <1.6), hscurses (>=1.4 && <1.6), MonadRandom (>=0.6 && <0.7), mtl (>=2.2 && <2.4), random (>=1.3 && <1.4), safe (>=0.3.18 && <0.4), safe-exceptions (>=0.1 && <0.2), serialise (>=0.2 && <0.3), splitmix (>=0.1 && <0.2), unordered-containers (>=0.2 && <0.3) [details] |
| License | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Author | mbays |
| Maintainer | mbays@sdf.org |
| Category | Game |
| Home page | https://mbays.sdf.org/fov/ |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://thegonz.net/~fov/fearOfView.git |
| Uploaded | by mbays at 2025-08-15T19:06:45Z |
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| Executables | fearOfView |
| Downloads | 26 total (7 in the last 30 days) |
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| Status | Docs not available [build log] All reported builds failed as of 2025-08-15 [all 2 reports] |
Readme for fearOfView-0.1.1.0
[back to package description]Fear of View
A terminal broughlike game about manipulating vision.
Released under the AGPL, version 3 or later. See COPYING.
Building
Dependencies:
- GHC and cabal: package
cabal-installon Debian,dev-haskell/cabalon Gentoo, etc. - ncurses
Run with cabal run.
Install with cabal install.
Bearlibterminal
In case you don't have or like ncurses, the game also supports this alternative terminal library which runs in graphical mode (via OpenGL).
Install bearlibterminal, then run with cabal run -fbear.