Maze of Death

Maze of Death is my second C64 game for Ludum Dare. You have to find your way through a dangerous maze where all walls are poisoned. To reach the exit you have to die - a lot! Luckily you can collect your dead bodies to get back your lost live and continue your search for the right way to the exit.

Attention: You need a real C64 or an emulator like WinVICE to play this game. ~~I'll add more options to play later in the evening.~~

Unfortunaly I'm not able to provide you with a HTML5 version, as I can't get VICE.js to work with gamepad or keyboard. Nonetheless you can download a proper C64 emulator for your system here: http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/.

Running on Windows ##

Download WinVICE from above site and unpack the files in a folder of your choise. Copy everything from the Commodore 64-zip (mazeofdeath.zip) into the WinVICE folder. Run *start.bat* to automatically run Maze of Death in the emulator. Use numpad to play the game. If you prefer a gamepad go to *Settings > Joystick settings > Joystick settings...* and select your gamepad from the select box of Joystick #2. In this dialog you can also create your personal control scheme.

Running on other systems ##

Unfortunaly I can't provide any help to make Maze of Death work on OSX or Linux. But steps should be similar.

Compiling the source ##

To compile the source code you need CBM prg Studio (http://www.ajordison.co.uk/). Beware: The game is much slower, if compiled from sources. Maze generation takes over a minute, also moving the player is slower.

You'll need a BASIC compiler for C64 to make the game faster. For Maze of Death I used Austrospeed. Other compilers like Basic-Boss or BASIC 64 might also work, but need some compiler directives to run properly. Speed improvements are subtle with other compilers.