[racket] W: A Game Written in Racket

Haha, the fourth is a hallway, so you probably mean the fifth, in which
case you need to make all the floors the same.

- Thom

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> Neat!
>
> I can't figure out the fourth level, though. :)
>
> Vincent
>
>
> At Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:39:04 -0500,
> Thom Chiovoloni wrote:
> >
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> > Hello Racket users!
> >
> > As some of you might know, last weekend was Ludum
> > Dare<http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/>,
> > a game development competition where the members attempt to write a game
> in
> > either 48 or 72 hours (depending on the competition they are entering).
> >
> > I entered the 72 hour competition, and wrote my entry in Racket.  I chose
> > Racket for this because while it's not one of the traditional game
> > development languages, it is a powerful language with a full-featured and
> > robust gui toolkit, and also because development time of Racket code is
> > very low (assuming I already know the contents of the documentation).
> >
> > Enough about that!
> >
> > The game is named W, and is a puzzle/adventure type game.  It is quite
> > short as of right now (only 5 rooms, a symptom of the design, code, art,
> > and sound effects being created in 72 hours), but with any luck I will
> > continue updating it this winter.
> >
> > You can find the game and source on its entry page
> > here<
> http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7728>
> > (includes
> > screenshots), or on its GitHub page here <https://github.com/thomcc/W>.
> > (note that those two links do not point to identical versions of the
> game,
> > the GitHub page is still in active development, the submitted version is
> > available as the ldjam branch).
> >
> > Anyway, I just thought some of you might think this was cool, so I hope
> you
> > take a look!
> >
> > -Thom (also known as yoklov, on the IRC channel)
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