Author:

• Name: tsoj
  Location: DE - Federal Republic of Germany (Germany)

To build:

    make

There is an alternate version which has controls that will make much more sense to those familiar with vi. See Alternate code below.

To use:

    ./prog

Try:

    # Make your terminal as large as possible, possibly reduce your font size
    # then...
    ./prog

Alternate code:

This version has the difference of moving forwards, left, backwards and right, where instead of w, a, s and d, you can use k, h, j and l.

Alternate build:

    make alt

Alternate use:

    # Make your terminal as large as possible, possibly reduce your font size
    # then...
    ./prog.alt

..and maybe curse less than you might otherwise, but still probably curse (see below) :-)

Judges’ remarks:

This game does not use curses, but you may end up cursing.

The code is made more difficult to read using an innovative, right justified, reverse indentation style.

Author’s remarks:

Controls

• Movement: w (forwards), a (left), s (backwards), d (right)
• Fire: space
• Quit: q
• Pause: p, then use any other key to resume

       /\
      //\\
     /    \
    /______\
      /\/\

Compile and run

Linux

    cc -std=c99 -O3 prog.c -o prog
    ./prog

Windows

The only way I found to make it work is to use MSYS2. When using the MSYS2 shell you can install gcc via pacman.

    cc -std=c99 -O3 prog.c -o prog
    ./prog.exe

Warnings

• -Wno-missing-prototypes
• -Wno-shorten-64-to-32
• -Wno-sign-conversion
• -Wno-implicit-int-float-conversion
• -Wno-missing-field-initializers
• -Wno-implicit-float-conversion
• -Wno-vla
• -Wno-float-conversion
• -Wno-comma
• -Wno-shadow
• -Wno-format
• -Wno-empty-body
• -Wno-misleading-indentation
• -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
• You may experience a mild motion aftereffect when playing for too long.

High score

Score will be shown in the top left corner. My best was 156. If you beat that I’ll send you the image of a very expensive chocolate.

Features

• Procedural star generation.
• Very space-efficient for loops.
• No use of != or ==.
• Smooth rendering even on slow terminals.
• Advanced ASCII art.
• Cutting edge physics engine and collision detection.
• Probably not many segfaults.
• Every letter in the English alphabet has a variable or function named after it.
• Not a virus.
• Runs on my machine.

Tips

• Adjust your terminal size for different experiences.
• Run this program in a virtual console to immerse yourself in the game.

Primary files

• prog.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• prog.alt.c - alternate source code
• prog.orig.c - original source code

Secondary files

• 2020_tsoj.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• index.html - this web page

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