awkaster - a first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk

[Sandman]

I thought this might be interesting for the forum. While the language AWK isn't very well-known by the general public, it's probably fair to say it's a classic language that will be around for many more years.

So, anyway, some person took upon themselves to make a first person shooter in it, which is really wild. But the thing is, the code is pretty readable even if you don't know the language. So this might be inspiration for somebody into the topic.

GitHub - TheMozg/awk-raycaster: Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique

Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique - TheMozg/awk-raycaster

github.com

AWK - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[kimstudio]

Know nothing about awk but this code is indeed readable. Can port this to B4J?

btw: pico-8 is a really nice fantasy computer with lots of high quality open source games in lua.

 

[Sandman]

Can port this to B4J?

I would assume so. Obviously you would need to make adjustments, but the general structure and math should be fairly portable, I imagine. It's probably a fun project, give it a try.