A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2017)
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HN comment orderIf you're interested in feats of low-size games, I offer you kkrieger, a 3D FPS that fits in 96KB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZBUsn5RYg
General greatness aside, I have to say that's the best quality awk code I've seen. Too many people treat writing awk like picking up after your dog - something to get done quickly, when you have to. Which leads to write-only line noise code, which leads to people treating awk like picking up...
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-13 | Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in AwkFirst breakout | TheMozg | 350 | 55 |
| 2017-06-28 | Console FPS written completely in awk | iuguy | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-02-20 | Pseudo-3D Shooter in Gawk Using Raycasting | lelf | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-09-01 | Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique (2017) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-11-19 | Awkaster: A text-mode raycasting 3D shooter written in Awk | tomcam | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-11-19 | awk-raycaster | weinzierl | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-01-19 | A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2017)Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | nequo | 514 | 106 |