Landon Curt Noll
f615bba21e
The commit 00ae59cd47 had a
mistake that introduces changes to Makefiles for 1996 thru 2020
that should not have been included.
This change reverses these intermediate changes until
the given year's Makefiles are ready.
Best Graphic Game:
John Williams
941 E 25 S
Lindon UT 84042
USA
Judge's Remarks:
To build:
make williams
Try:
./williams
The only way to win is not to play. No, really; you can't actually win.
:)
The formatting really wants a wide screen; if you can't read it that way,
it's the standard "three triangles around a circular" logo for nukes.
This is a pretty straightforward game.
Selected Author's Comments:
What this program does:
It plays Missile Command, complete with MIRVs, smart bombs,
extra cities, and scoring.
Command line arguments and input files are ignored.
To play, just point and click where you want your ABMs to explode.
The score is 10 points for each missile which is destroyed before
it reaches the ground, -1 point for each ABM used, and 100 bonus
points for each city left at the end of a level.
The game ends when you lose all your cities, although you will have
to wait until the level finishes raining down to see your final score.
The main obfuscation technique is the need to compress the code to fit
all the functionality within the size limits. I could not have included
smart bombs without the rule excluding { } ; characters in the counts.
All of the #defines are there to reduce code size.
On the other hand, I did waste a few characters in order to include
some rather obfuscated math in the program. It uses fixed-point
arithmetic, resulting in the overuse of bitwise shift operators.
Another example is (x|1), which is used in a couple different ways.
The purpose of A/(x|1) is probably obvious, but what does (x|1)%2 do?