jorgebastida/maze

Euskal Encounter XII Foss coding comeptition

Maze

Small ncurses maze game developed in 24h (~18h) during the Euskal Encounter XXI FOSS coding competition.

For the creation of the maze I've use a depth-First search algorithm which creates "perfect" mazes (without contiguous spaces or blocks). After creating the maze, the game choose a random exit and a random start position for the player (trying to put him as far as possible from the exit).

For the networking I've use ØMQ. The client polls the server every few milliseconds updating the position of the user, and as response it receives the position of the server's user.

You are always the player (1) and your opponent (2).

You can control the player using:

• ← : Left arrow
• → : Right arrow
• ↑ : Up arrow
• ↓ : Down arrow
• Esc : Exit

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• pyzmq==13.1.0

Features

• Random maze generator.
• Create mazes with arbitrary width and height.
• Random start and end positions.
• Single Player mode.
  • With progressive difficulty.
  • Number of moves.
  • Time spent.
• Multiplayer mode over the network.
  • Challenge your friends over the network!
  • Discover how log it took you.
• Sound!! ~ Kind of ;)
• Multi platform... *ish.
• In color!

Single Player

You can start a single player game running python game.py.

If you want to start a game using a bigger maze, run: python game.py --width=14 --height=20.

Multi Player

You can start a multiplayer server running python game.py --server this will create a server on 8123. Using another terminal or computer, you can connect to this server using: python game.py --connect localhost:8123.

Enjoy!

Help

usage: game.py [-h] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT] [--server]

[--server-port SERVER_PORT] [--connect SERVER_ADDRESS]

Maze game for the Euskal Encounter XXI.

optional arguments:

-h, --help	show this help message and exit
--width WIDTH	Maze width
--height HEIGHT
	Maze height
--server	Start a maze server
--server-port SERVER_PORT
	Server port
--connect SERVER_ADDRESS
	Server host:port

ScreenShot

Known bugs

• If you want to create big mazes, be sure that your terminal is big enough, or the program will raise an error.
• Sometimes the server exit abnormaly if you lose.
• Pulsation scores are not yet implemented on multiplayer.