{"id":3642,"date":"2015-07-25T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2023-07-13T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:58:28","slug":"poorly-drawn-robots-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/personal\/poorly-drawn-robots-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Poorly Drawn Robots In Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yes, I had to resort to taking these screenshots with my phone.<\/em>
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Recently I started poking around an old hard drive I found and uncovered a treasure trove of old selfies, homework, and even a diary listing the first time I ever kissed a girl (January 13th 2000.) Among other historic artifacts was a game I made for a computer science class during my junior year of high school called Poorly Drawn Robots In Space.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this had nothing to do with whatever so-called “assignment” I was supposed to be doing for the class. I liked making games more than learning about for loops or whatever, and besides — you<\/em> try telling a 17 year old what to do. Go ahead. See how that works out for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game is your typical Lode Runner knockoff: you walk around avoiding the bad guys and collecting keys to get to the exit. There’s a total of three levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I found the game I was shocked: it still actually runs! So I put the whole thing up on GitHub<\/a>, ugly source code and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep in mind the game is for Windows only, and some of the colors are screwed up because it was designed back when 256 colors was the norm. Oh, and there’s no sound. Extract the .zip and run robots.exe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Controls<\/strong>: Left\/Right to walk, Ctrl to jump
License<\/strong>: \u00af\\_(?)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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