This is an exploration of minimalism in game design, loosely in the tradition of text adventures, offering one personal perspective -- the author's -- on an answer to the question, "What is a game?" It strives to retain an austerely minimal aesthetic while incorporating many classic elements seemingly essential to game design: interactivity, discover, surprise, rewards, ... and a twist!
Also, speed runs.
Written as a console app using pure SML '97 with no libraries or nothin'. The source should compile under pretty much any SML compiler; i used SML/NJ and MLton to develop. Binaries are available for ancient OS X, antique Windows, and quasi-modern Linux.
Well, I hesitate to give too much away, but I suspect a common failure mode is overthinking it. Try pretending that you don't know anything about how games work.
I can't play on Linux. Unable to launch binairy file.
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dick_claus18 May 2013, 04:53
Nice exloration and logic game. I managed to finish it. At first it was not obvious, but later I figure out the logic and learn it. It is interesting how our brain will learn and start teach somebodies different logic.
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Unable to launch binairy file.