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SedSokoban
rsd writes: "Have you ever thought that sed is too limited and only useful to Regular Expression
scripts? Well, verde666, who works for
Conectiva, proved that it can be used for games
too. He wrote a sokoban game named sedsokoban with sed. There is even a screenshot."
(This was the case in the original, or at least the older, Sokoban for XTs.)
It's possible to sculpt Venus using only a nail file (and a lump of marble).
That doesn't mean nail files are any more useful than we thought.
I am a Karma Library.
Today it's Sokoban... beware, for before you know it it'll be Elite.
GROGGS: alive and well and living in
Score 3 interesting for not knowing what sed is. How times have changed. A snapshot of today's slashdot crowd right here for us.
And I'll probably get moderated down but then again, perhaps that makes sense, because it is I, who is the stranger now.
Hey, let's not be unfair. At least we Perl users have terminal control libraries and something that looks like a programming language. Besides, using sed for "real" programming is hard and challenging and people stand in awe, but using Perl for real programming is just fun and no one notices if you program something infinitely cool with it, because Perl was made so that infinitely cool things could be made easily.
This hack is impressive because it was made in a toothless environment, not because it has not yet been implemented in some better language =)
And how! I was considering a facetious comment along the lines of "Hey, that looks like a nethack level..." but that would only work in a group of nethack players.
Anyway, you left out the part about it being the best game in the world, etc. Diablo? Diablo is for people with short attention spans who like shiny graphics. Us hardcore gamers (with, er, 386s...) know where it's at. [/joking- play whatever you like, it's a theoretically free world]
The curious ought to go to nethack.org and give it a shot. If you're new and using DOS/Win, try the graphics version. But whatever the interface, the game is highly addictive.
Karma: T-rexcellent.