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Chips Challenge

Primary LanguageC++

Chips

Influenced by Chips Challenge

Chips

Chips Challenge on Wikipedia

History

  • Released in 1989 For Atari Lynx
  • Designed by Chuck Sommervill for Epxy
  • Other Platforms: DOS, Windows 95, Commodore 64, and more...
  • Chucks Challenge now available for Android!

Game play

  • Tile-based 2D Puzzle
  • Collect Chips to complete the level
  • Alter the level by moving tiles to create paths
  • Unlock sections of the level by collecting keys
  • Must Swim, Skate, Walk on fire, and some magic green stuff to complete the level

Why it's Retro

  • Original First released on Atari Lynx
  • Simple 2D graphical style
  • Because I'm sentimental about the original
  • Limited color and sound

Dependencies

  • C++11 compliant compiler
  • SFML 2.1
  • CMake

Usage

  • To compile: make
  • Executable: bin/chips
  • From the command line
    • -l <level name> # level names are "1", "2", ..., "8" and "test"
    • -c # turns on cheats
    • -t <tileset file name> # see res/ for tilesets