* Minotaur

[[file:minotaur.jpg]]

~minotaur~ is a terminal maze game, written in June-August of 2020. Guide Theseus (magenta) to the exit (green) before the Minotaur (yellow) catches you.

The maze is generated with the [[https://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/1/27/maze-generation-growing-tree-algorithm][growing tree algorithm]].

[[file:maze.webp]]

At each tick, the Minotaur advances one cell along the shortest path toward Theseus. When the game ends, it prints your survival time in seconds.

[[file:minotaur.webp]]

NB: these videos are from development. There is a small maze generation bug in them that was fixed. The current program has some small differences in behavior.

** Usage

#+begin_src shell
minotaur [-h ROWS] [-w COLUMNS] [-t MS]
#+end_src

Flags:

- =-h= — height in terminal rows (default: terminal rows)
- =-w= — width in terminal columns (default: terminal columns)
- =-t= — milliseconds between Minotaur movements (default: 250)

** Controls

- Arrow keys — move Theseus
- =s= — toggle the shortest path to the exit (blue)
- =q= — quit

** Installation

#+begin_src shell
go install code.chimeric.al/dwrz/minotaur/cmd/minotaur@latest
#+end_src