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Ascii Maze

By summaky

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness256
Community2892.29
Audio3711.00
Graphics3952.08
Theme3962.35
Humor4111.31
Overall4522.00
Fun4591.65
Innovation4801.56

Comments

fireslash 2011-08-24 21:15

Controls get annoying when trying to move at higher speeds. Also somewhat disorienting when going fast since the grid moves so far per step. Cute idea using ASCII.

johnfn 2011-08-25 04:46

Nice little game. I checked out your source code (as you mentioned) and it's kind of amazing. 3500 lines, with a bibliography at the end..!!! We need a technical category for people like you.

d_m 2011-08-25 19:31

Great coding style--I gave you a high community score for your commenting, sourcecode, etc. I like the ASCII art character (is it a penguin?). One nice feature to add might be to mark your path with a trail of dots. That way when you backtrack you can see where you've been. Maybe you want the game to be super hard, but it would make it a lot easier to play, especially since you can't see most of the maze most of the time. Anyway, fun idea. Incidentally, do you play a lot of roguelikes? I wrote a labyrinth generator for Angband, so happy to see other people in LD using libtcod and generating ASCII mazes :)

andrew-2 2011-08-28 18:21

This reminds me of my very first game ever! :D

tcstyle 2011-09-05 20:05

Good use of ascii. The game itself lacks some additional features. Gets boring quite fast.
Your source is amazingly well structured.

angrygeometry 2011-09-06 16:50

big fan of the ascii! incredibly simple game though, however your code seems to be something amazing so who knows.