Best use of Vision
Nick Johnson
25 Harvey Tce
Richmond
Christchurch
New Zealand
http://www.notdot.net/
To build:
make
To run:
./arachnid [mazefile]
Try:
./arachnid arachnid.info
and then try:
./arachnid arachnid.c
Judges' remarks
The fun part comes when you realize that the maze scrolls. The overall visual effect is quite pleasing (at least on some displays), and, well, it's a lot of fun.
Navigation is through the use of the "wasd" inverted-T formation on Qwerty keyboards. Rogue players, vi users, and Dvorak typists are invited to get lost!
Author's remarks
This program accepts ASCII formatted mazes as input, and renders them onscreen for the user to explore, complete with Line Of Sight
- you cannot see parts of the maze your avatar (the '@') could not have seen.
The maze files will be interpreted with spaces ' ' as gaps, tilde '~' symbols (if any) as exits (which get represented as a NetHack style '<' once loaded), and any other characters as walls.
Feed the program its own source for a default maze. Running it with no command line parameters will do this. In a nice symmetry, the character constant '~' that recognises exits to input mazes itself forms the exit to the default maze. Another maze, 'maze1' has also been provided. This maze is 255x255, about the largest maze supported, for the particularaly insane maze explorers out there.
Usage:
./arachnid [mazefile]
You can explore the maze using the w,a,s, and d keys.
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