Genre(s)
Puzzle game with pseudo-programming elements
Time to Complete
~10-20 minutes
Team
Noah Cichowlas - Music
Inspirations
Baba is You
git bash
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
Development Period
Spring 2023
DEV NOTES
- I had a small amount of experience with the Linux command line at the time I made this, but I was (and still am) primarily a GUI user, so this game is more based on the imagined image of hidden mastery within the mysterious command line. The game-over cutscene is based on Neal Stephenson's description of old computers "going Cyrillic" when they crashed, as are various other things.
- There are multiple possible "workflows" to moving around in this game. Some people use -s 10 and -t 10 for every movement and treat it like a sliding block puzzle, others inch carefully along at the default speed and t -1. Some copy-paste their commands, others use multiple terminals to move... I was very pleased to see all these emergent behaviors coming from my tiny command line game.
- I didn't know about Quadrilateral Cowboy when I made this game. I still haven't played it, but have heard it's very similar.