This is a copy of a game I played as a kid in the 90s, where you could play a smiley in a maze, hunting down other players and shooting them with a ball.
The interface is terminal-based and pseudo 3D (similar to the first Wolfenstein game). The original was a LAN multiplayer game, where one wins by hunting down other players in a maze and shooting them with a ball. It might have been the 1987 game MIDI Maze, but my memory is blurred. (Also checkout MidiMaze2).
Compile and run with: g++ HappyMaze.cpp -o HappyMaze -lncurses && ./HappyMaze.
The first person perspective into the maze.
To do:
- sidewards steps .
- collision detection (hit walls) .
- network multiplayer (client-side hosted).
- shooting .
- automated maze generation .
More to do:
- re-write in Rust (?).
- give depth perception of walls with color gradient.
Done:
- vertical lines in walls for orientation .
Sources:
- https://github.com/OneLoneCoder/CommandLineFPS .
- https://github.com/sarnau/MidiMaze2 .
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7317523/what-should-i-use-instead-of-windows-h-in-linux .
- http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/ .
Further reading:
- http://www.midimaze.de/ .
- http://www.esglabs.com/midimaze/ .
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D .
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze .
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maze_video_games .
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn .
- http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/288/648/776.gif
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1727881/how-to-use-the-pi-constant-in-c#1727896 .
- https://youtu.be/xW8skO7MFYw (Code-It-Yourself! First Person Shooter, Quick and Simple C++) .
- https://youtu.be/BSb87DC-PtA (RetroAhoy: Wolfenstein 3D) .
