The Challenge
Your challenge is to create a text-based game using only one "map" made entirely out of text. Your game must have a character (represented by the DOS smily face character) that you move around with the arrow keys. Everything else is up to you.
- <img src="/sections/express/issue3/lost2.gif" alt="Lost 2" width=320 height=200>
(A screenshot of <i>Lost 2</i> by Groovy Concepts, a game using ASCII graphics and a smily face as your character.)
Entries will be due on or before November 10th, 2004 at midnight, Eastern Standard Time. Results will be revealed in Issue #3 of <i>QB Express</i>, which will come out on or around November 15th.
Here is a complete listing of the rules for this competition:
- Rules
*Your character must be the standard DOS smily face character. (CHR$(1), I believe.) He or she must be moved around with the four arrow keys.
*Your game map / environment must be text-based, and consist of only one screen. No scrolling screens or walking into a "building" that is on another map.
*Your map may adjust based on user input, but it can not change completely. For example, you can have your character pick up items, shoot bullets, interact with other characters that move around the map, open doors, push walls, etc. -- but you can't, for example, have your character push a switch and have everything on the map change. That would mean you're loading a second map.
*Your game may be of any genre -- RPG, puzzle, shooter, strategy, dating game, etc.
*Your graphics must be entirely text-based. Absolutely nothing but text. (You may use as much colored text as you want.)
*You can use any screen mode you would like.
*Entries are due no later than <b>November 10th, 2004 at midnight</b> Eastern Standard Time.
Good luck!
If I have enough time that is... I've got exams next week 
Text mode isn't so hard, I'll probably come up with something crappy but it's better than nothing 
Anyway, I think if I can make 
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