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Offline Cobalt

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Maze Crawler
« on: December 05, 2018, 02:16:10 pm »
Here is an interesting take on the maze crawling games.
capable of generating near infinitely sized back traceable random mazes. limited only by memory size. Each room generated can lead to up to 3 new rooms and back to the previous room. this maze would be nearly impossible(at least very inconvenient) to map out as there is no 'round trip' movements. I mean that if you went up, left, down, right you would not end up in the original room. but if you reversed the movements, up,left,down,right then left,up,right,down you would find yourself back in the starting room.

I've never managed to pull this style of maze off before, but have always been fascinated by its possibility.
now this is just a proof of concept example and it is possible to start in a closed room, as I have not added any checking to prevent this yet. you can move around and it will display a 'mock' room but other than getting lost there is nothing else to do.

Code: QB64: [Select]
  1. 'on demand random retraceable maze
  2. TYPE Roomlook
  3.  up AS _BYTE
  4.  down AS _BYTE
  5.  left AS _BYTE
  6.  right AS _BYTE
  7.  
  8. TYPE room
  9.  North AS INTEGER 'what room lies in direction
  10.  South AS INTEGER
  11.  East AS INTEGER
  12.  West AS INTEGER
  13.  Walls AS Roomlook 'walls or passages
  14.  Created AS _BYTE 'as this room been visited?
  15.  
  16. DIM SHARED Maze(32000) AS room, a$, b$, c$(1), d$(5), e$(1)
  17. DIM SHARED lastmade%, wall$(3)
  18. CONST TRUE = -1, FALSE = NOT TRUE
  19. CONST UP = 1, DOWN = 2, LEFT = 3, RIGHT = 4
  20. a$ = "To the "
  21. b$ = " there is a "
  22. c$(0) = "wall": c$(1) = "passage"
  23. d$(UP) = "north": d$(DOWN) = "south": d$(LEFT) = "west": d$(RIGHT) = "east"
  24. e$(0) = "unknown": e$(1) = "known"
  25.  
  26. 'make maze ready to explore
  27. ClearMaze
  28. makerooms 'premake some wall sections
  29.  
  30. 'create the starting room
  31. 'pick which walls you can pass
  32. Maze(0).Walls.up = INT(RND * 2)
  33. Maze(0).Walls.down = INT(RND * 2)
  34. Maze(0).Walls.left = INT(RND * 2)
  35. Maze(0).Walls.right = INT(RND * 2)
  36. Maze(0).Created = TRUE
  37.  
  38. current% = 0 'room player is in
  39. lastmade% = 0 'last room created
  40.  
  41.  LOCATE 8, , 0 ' turn cursor off
  42.  DescribeRoom current%
  43.  
  44.  drawroom current%
  45.  LOCATE 8, 1, 1 ' turn cursor on
  46.  
  47.  DO
  48.   kbd& = _KEYHIT
  49.   _DELAY .05
  50.  LOOP UNTIL kbd&
  51.  
  52.  SELECT CASE kbd&
  53.   CASE 18432 'up
  54.    MessageHandler "You head north..."
  55.    IF Maze(current%).Walls.up THEN 'if you can go up
  56.     IF Maze(current%).North >= 0 THEN 'is north already referenced
  57.      MessageHandler "you have been here before"
  58.      current% = Maze(current%).North
  59.     ELSE 'never been north in this room
  60.      MessageHandler "you find somewhere new"
  61.      lastmade% = lastmade% + 1
  62.      nul% = CreateRoom(lastmade%, current%, UP)
  63.      current% = lastmade%
  64.     END IF
  65.    END IF
  66.   CASE 20480 'down
  67.    MessageHandler "You head south..."
  68.    IF Maze(current%).Walls.down THEN 'if you can go down
  69.     IF Maze(current%).South >= 0 THEN 'is south already referenced
  70.      MessageHandler "you have been here before"
  71.      current% = Maze(current%).South
  72.     ELSE 'never been south in this room
  73.      MessageHandler "you find somewhere new"
  74.      lastmade% = lastmade% + 1
  75.      nul% = CreateRoom(lastmade%, current%, DOWN)
  76.      current% = lastmade%
  77.     END IF
  78.    END IF
  79.   CASE 19200 'left
  80.    MessageHandler "You head west..."
  81.    IF Maze(current%).Walls.left THEN 'if you can go left
  82.     IF Maze(current%).West >= 0 THEN 'is west already referenced
  83.      MessageHandler "you have been here before"
  84.      current% = Maze(current%).West
  85.     ELSE 'never been west in this room
  86.      MessageHandler "you find somewhere new"
  87.      lastmade% = lastmade% + 1
  88.      nul% = CreateRoom(lastmade%, current%, LEFT)
  89.      current% = lastmade%
  90.     END IF
  91.    END IF
  92.   CASE 19712 'right
  93.    MessageHandler "You head east..."
  94.    IF Maze(current%).Walls.right THEN 'if you can go right
  95.     IF Maze(current%).East >= 0 THEN 'is east already referenced
  96.      MessageHandler "you have been here before"
  97.      current% = Maze(current%).East
  98.     ELSE 'never been north in this room
  99.      MessageHandler "you find somewhere new"
  100.      lastmade% = lastmade% + 1
  101.      nul% = CreateRoom(lastmade%, current%, RIGHT)
  102.      current% = lastmade%
  103.     END IF
  104.    END IF
  105.   CASE 27
  106.    exitflag%% = TRUE
  107.  kbd& = 0
  108. LOOP UNTIL exitflag%%
  109.  
  110.  
  111. FUNCTION CreateRoom (Going%, From%, Direction%%)
  112.  Maze(Going%).Walls.up = INT(RND * 2)
  113.  Maze(Going%).Walls.down = INT(RND * 2)
  114.  Maze(Going%).Walls.left = INT(RND * 2)
  115.  Maze(Going%).Walls.right = INT(RND * 2)
  116.  Maze(Going%).Created = TRUE
  117.  'which direction did player head
  118.  SELECT CASE Direction%%
  119.   CASE UP 'player went up
  120.    Maze(Going%).Walls.down = 1 'down has to be open, direction coming from
  121.    Maze(Going%).South = From% 'south goes back to previous room
  122.    Maze(From%).North = Going% 'the room id north of previous room
  123.   CASE DOWN
  124.    Maze(Going%).Walls.up = 1 'up has to be open, direction coming from
  125.    Maze(Going%).North = From% 'north goes back to previous room
  126.    Maze(From%).South = Going% 'the room id south of previous room
  127.   CASE LEFT
  128.    Maze(Going%).Walls.right = 1 'left has to be open, direction coming from
  129.    Maze(Going%).East = From% 'east goes back to previous room
  130.    Maze(From%).West = Going% 'the room id west of previous room
  131.   CASE RIGHT
  132.    Maze(Going%).Walls.left = 1 'right has to be open, direction coming from
  133.    Maze(Going%).West = From% 'west goes back to previous room
  134.    Maze(From%).East = Going% 'the room id east of previous room
  135.  
  136. SUB DescribeRoom (id%)
  137.  MessageHandler "You are currently in room" + STR$(id%)
  138.  MessageHandler a$ + d$(UP) + b$ + c$(Maze(id%).Walls.up)
  139.  MessageHandler a$ + d$(DOWN) + b$ + c$(Maze(id%).Walls.down)
  140.  MessageHandler a$ + d$(LEFT) + b$ + c$(Maze(id%).Walls.left)
  141.  MessageHandler a$ + d$(RIGHT) + b$ + c$(Maze(id%).Walls.right)
  142.  MessageHandler blank$
  143.  
  144. SUB ClearMaze
  145.  FOR i% = 0 TO 32000
  146.   Maze(i%).North = -1
  147.   Maze(i%).South = -1
  148.   Maze(i%).West = -1
  149.   Maze(i%).East = -1
  150.   Maze(i%).Created = FALSE
  151.  NEXT i%
  152.  
  153. SUB dumpmap
  154.  FOR i% = 0 TO lastmade%
  155.   PRINT #1, "room ID"; i%
  156.   PRINT #1, "north leads to "; Maze(i%).North
  157.   PRINT #1, "south leads to "; Maze(i%).South
  158.   PRINT #1, "west leads to "; Maze(i%).West
  159.   PRINT #1, "east leads to "; Maze(i%).East
  160.   PRINT #1, "up wall status "; Maze(i%).Walls.up
  161.   PRINT #1, "down wall status "; Maze(i%).Walls.down
  162.   PRINT #1, "left wall status "; Maze(i%).Walls.left
  163.   PRINT #1, "right wall status "; Maze(i%).Walls.right
  164.   PRINT #1,
  165.  NEXT i%
  166.  
  167. SUB drawroom (id%)
  168.  IF Maze(id%).Walls.up THEN 'has passage
  169.   LOCATE 10, 1: PRINT wall$(1)
  170.   LOCATE 10, 1: PRINT wall$(0)
  171.  FOR i%% = 11 TO 20
  172.   LOCATE i%%, 2: PRINT "³"
  173.   LOCATE i%%, 11: PRINT "³"
  174.  NEXT i%%
  175.  IF Maze(id%).Walls.left THEN 'has passage
  176.   LOCATE 14, 2: PRINT "Ù": LOCATE 15, 2: PRINT " ": LOCATE 16, 2: PRINT "¿"
  177.  IF Maze(id%).Walls.right THEN 'has passage
  178.   LOCATE 14, 11: PRINT "À": LOCATE 15, 11: PRINT " ": LOCATE 16, 11: PRINT "Ú"
  179.  IF Maze(id%).Walls.down THEN 'has passage
  180.   LOCATE 21, 1: PRINT wall$(3)
  181.   LOCATE 21, 1: PRINT wall$(2)
  182.  
  183. SUB makerooms
  184.  'ÚÄ¿³ÀÙ
  185.  wall$(0) = " ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ "
  186.  wall$(1) = " ÚÄÄÙ  ÀÄÄ¿ "
  187.  wall$(2) = " ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ "
  188.  wall$(3) = " ÀÄÄ¿  ÚÄÄÙ "
  189.  
  190. SUB MessageHandler (txt$)
  191.  'define message area
  192.  VIEW PRINT 1 TO 9
  193.  'display message
  194.  LOCATE 9, 1: PRINT txt$
  195.  'restore screen area
  196.  _DELAY .33
  197.  
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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2018, 02:51:56 pm »
Nice. I was wondering what a "crawler" was. It reminded me of games like Atari Haunted House.

If you also like traditional mazes, this is an interesting one created in QB 16 years ago by the former forum owner, Mac.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/qbasic/mazes-from-hell-version-2-t34310.html#p72064

It took me about 5 minutes to solve one and it has multiple mazes.

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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2019, 07:47:06 pm »
This is a really cool maze game maker! I searched for "Maze Maker" and found this from last year. This can be turned into countless roll playing games.

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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2019, 01:03:05 am »
This is a really cool maze game maker! I searched for "Maze Maker" and found this from last year. This can be turned into countless roll playing games.

Well, hey thanks! If you can use it, have at it. I had forgotten all about it.

Depending on how much memory (and 32bit or 64bit QB64 version) somebody could make a truly endless D&D dungeon campaign! change the INTEGER to INTEGER64 or DOUBLE and I don't believe anyone could explore it all, least not in one lifetime.
Even at LONG, only the most dedicated(and lifeless) nerd would try. But there would still be a lot of work to do, as of now this is nothing more than a shell. No real meat inside.
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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2019, 04:19:01 pm »
This is nice, does have potential and I am finding MessageHandler interesting too, thanks Cobalt :)

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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2019, 04:47:17 pm »
Um... I have a slight problem with the display of this game. I'm going to guess that it may be a font (or lack of font) issue. Can someone provide a solution?

Two images. The first is how the listing appears (to me) on the website. The second image is how it appears in the IDE.

 
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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2019, 04:49:16 pm »
Sorry... Clicked too often.  How can I delete this post?
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2019, 09:24:39 pm »
Not sure you can delete posts, except just click "Modify" and then erase everything on the post and type something like "Deleted By Poster".

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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2019, 11:56:02 pm »
Um... I have a slight problem with the display of this game. I'm going to guess that it may be a font (or lack of font) issue. Can someone provide a solution?


that section is supposed to be ASCII extended characters. if you look in the IDE ASCII, 179,180,193,217 ect but for some reason when it was pasted here the extended character were changed.

Ill see if I can find the original source and take a snap shot.

found it, this image shows what those characters are supposed to be. I am surprised that they didn't restore when you pasted it into the IDE.
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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2019, 04:35:28 am »
I also get it wrong. This is because of the code page because our systems do not use the default English ASCII table, but another (from 128 to 255) due to the locale.

 
make rooms.GIF


So (and now excuse me if this is a totally stupid suggestion) theoretically using SHELL "Powershell culture" into the file after obtaining the LCID, additional tables could be implanted into the IDE that would translate this back  according to the LCID locale ID, or far better more simply, it would be enough for the IDE to automatically set the ASCII table to English basic ASCII. Either automatically or with a new command.
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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2019, 09:05:29 am »
I also tried to reset the text encoding in the IDE, unfortunately without success. I tried all the options in Options / Language. Unfortunately, without success. So my question is: With what font and with what coding (I think it should be the first one, 437) is this displayed correctly for someone?  If we know correct font,  can download the necessary font and to eliminate this problem in the future.

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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2019, 01:05:27 pm »
I also tried to reset the text encoding in the IDE, unfortunately without success. I tried all the options in Options / Language. Unfortunately, without success. So my question is: With what font and with what coding (I think it should be the first one, 437) is this displayed correctly for someone?  If we know correct font,  can download the necessary font and to eliminate this problem in the future.

Afraid I'm not sure on that, as this is the standard BIOS font for computers sold in the US, although Petr looks like you have some of the correct characters, the other 'line' characters would not happen to be hidden in the ASCII display would they? or are they over written for phonetic characters?

I do have a QB program that lets you modify the bios font, I guess if no other way is found I'll make a font to use with it.
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Re: Maze Crawler
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2019, 08:55:45 pm »
I also tried to reset the text encoding in the IDE, unfortunately without success. I tried all the options in Options / Language. Unfortunately, without success. So my question is: With what font and with what coding (I think it should be the first one, 437) is this displayed correctly for someone?  If we know correct font,  can download the necessary font and to eliminate this problem in the future.

Here's an option for you Petr -- fake fonts:

Code: QB64: [Select]
  1. DIM Font(255, x, y) AS _BYTE
  2.  
  3. SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(1024, 600, 32)
  4.  
  5. 'f$ = MapFont2Data$(16, Font(), "Font16")
  6. '_CLIPBOARD$ = f$
  7.  
  8. RESTORE Font16
  9. ReadFontData Font()
  10.  
  11. FakePrint 8, 16, "Hello World", Font()
  12. LOCATE 5, 2: PRINT "Hello World"
  13.  
  14.  
  15.  
  16.  
  17.  
  18. Font16:
  19. DATA 8,16
  20. DATA 789CED988176E3B80E43F5FF3FCDB7676A0297949CC869DA49DE44DD6D1D4BA20812043519E36BC47F3FEF31B6FD8C2BA05E1A3F5D8BF7C27FD1EA
  21. DATA 7AF9F436FEC401A18818F9F367F5D7FF4FC2FF78642E47759DDDE0823FE3C01F07F048FCC7CCD08B13B72E79FA8B95B1C1EE2FF8C773E2F78BE357C4
  22. DATA 4192A589D5AB77AAFF4DFE5F148B971D8FD6FFFF0B7E8CB802E902FE7F7D64FEFF6EC08AD0FB73F8CD0507EFF6BF222BE5ECB3553F341258925B9A3E
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  25. DATA FBCFBDC834B188149B48061E6F6CF1BC87C47C665144BC5EBCBBE7E5EDD6056D495DC12D04669A1BD6E068F8393A92752D67F70B68B7644FBED9D3AB
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  79. DATA XX
  80.  
  81.  
  82.  
  83. SUB FakePrint (x, y, text$, array() AS _UNSIGNED _BYTE) 'the text and the font array
  84.     BG = _BACKGROUNDCOLOR
  85.     fw = UBOUND(array, 2): fh = UBOUND(array, 3)
  86.     COLOR , 0
  87.     FOR i = 1 TO LEN(text$)
  88.         FOR w = 0 TO fw
  89.             FOR h = 0 TO fh
  90.                 IF array(ASC(text$, i), w, h) THEN PSET (x + w, y + h)
  91.             NEXT
  92.         NEXT
  93.         x = x + fw
  94.     NEXT
  95.     COLOR , BG
  96.  
  97.  
  98. SUB MapFont (font, array() AS _BYTE, label$)
  99.     d = _DEST: s = _SOURCE: c = _CONTROLCHR
  100.     fw = _FONTWIDTH(font): fh = _FONTHEIGHT(font)
  101.     tempimage = _NEWIMAGE(fw, fh, 256)
  102.     _DEST tempimage: _SOURCE tempimage
  103.     _FONT font: _CONTROLCHR OFF
  104.  
  105.     REDIM array(0 TO 255, 0 TO fw - 1, 0 TO fh - 1) AS _BYTE
  106.     FOR i = 0 TO 255
  107.         CLS
  108.         PRINT CHR$(i);
  109.         FOR w = 0 TO fw - 1
  110.             FOR h = 0 TO fh - 1
  111.                 IF POINT(w, h) THEN array(i, w, h) = -1
  112.             NEXT
  113.         NEXT
  114.     NEXT
  115.     _DEST d: _SOURCE d: IF c = 0 THEN _CONTROLCHR ON
  116.  
  117.  
  118.  
  119. FUNCTION MapFont2Data$ (font, array() AS _BYTE, label$)
  120.     d = _DEST: s = _SOURCE
  121.     c = _CONTROLCHR
  122.     fw = _FONTWIDTH(font)
  123.     fh = _FONTHEIGHT(font)
  124.     tempimage = _NEWIMAGE(fw, fh, 256)
  125.     _DEST tempimage: _SOURCE tempimage
  126.     _FONT font
  127.  
  128.     REDIM array(0 TO 255, 0 TO fw - 1, 0 TO fh - 1) AS _BYTE
  129.     FOR i = 0 TO 255
  130.         CLS
  131.         PRINT CHR$(i);
  132.         FOR w = 0 TO fw - 1
  133.             FOR h = 0 TO fh - 1
  134.                 IF POINT(w, h) THEN array(i, w, h) = -1
  135.             NEXT
  136.         NEXT
  137.     NEXT
  138.  
  139.     DIM m AS _MEM: m = _MEM(array())
  140.     DIM temp AS STRING, temp1 AS STRING
  141.     s = ConvertOffset(m.SIZE)
  142.     temp1 = SPACE$(s)
  143.     _MEMGET m, m.OFFSET, temp1
  144.     temp = _DEFLATE$(temp1)
  145.     IF label$ = "" THEN label$ = "generic_label_placeholder:"
  146.     IF RIGHT$(label$, 1) <> ":" THEN label$ = label$ + ":"
  147.  
  148.     MapFont2Data$ = label$ + CHR$(10)
  149.     MapFont2Data$ = MapFont2Data$ + "DATA " + STR$(fw) + "," + STR$(fh) 'write fontwidth and height
  150.     MapFont2Data$ = MapFont2Data$ + CHR$(10) + "DATA "
  151.  
  152.     FOR i = 1 TO LEN(temp)
  153.         h$ = HEX$(ASC(temp, i))
  154.         IF LEN(h$) = 1 THEN h$ = "0" + h$
  155.         MapFont2Data$ = MapFont2Data$ + h$
  156.         IF i MOD 60 = 59 AND i < LEN(temp) THEN
  157.             MapFont2Data$ = MapFont2Data$ + CHR$(10) + "DATA "
  158.         END IF
  159.     NEXT
  160.     MapFont2Data$ = MapFont2Data$ + CHR$(10) + "DATA XX" 'write end of data characters
  161.     _DEST d: _SOURCE d
  162.     IF c = 0 THEN _CONTROLCHR ON
  163.  
  164. SUB ReadFontData (array() AS _BYTE)
  165.     DIM temp AS STRING, temp1 AS STRING
  166.     DIM fw AS INTEGER, fh AS INTEGER
  167.     READ fw, fh
  168.     DO
  169.         READ hx$
  170.         IF hx$ <> "XX" THEN
  171.             FOR i = 1 TO LEN(hx$) STEP 2
  172.                 h = VAL("&H" + MID$(hx$, i, 2))
  173.                 temp = temp + CHR$(h)
  174.                 o = o + 1
  175.             NEXT
  176.         ELSE
  177.             EXIT DO
  178.         END IF
  179.     LOOP
  180.     temp1 = _INFLATE$(temp)
  181.     REDIM array(0 TO 255, 0 TO fw, 0 TO fh) AS _BYTE
  182.     DIM m AS _MEM: m = _MEM(array())
  183.     _MEMPUT m, m.OFFSET, temp1
  184.     _MEMFREE m
  185.  
  186.  
  187.  
  188. FUNCTION ConvertOffset&& (value AS _OFFSET)
  189.     DIM m AS _MEM 'Define a memblock
  190.     m = _MEM(value) 'Point it to use value
  191.     $IF 64BIT THEN
  192.         ' On 64 bit OSes, an OFFSET is 8 bytes in size. We can put it directly into an Integer64.
  193.         _MEMGET m, m.OFFSET, ConvertOffset&& ' Get the contents of the memblock and put the values there directly into ConvertOffset&&.
  194.     $ELSE
  195.         'However, on 32 bit OSes, an OFFSET is only 4 bytes. We need to put it into a LONG variable first.
  196.         _MEMGET m, m.OFFSET, temp& ' Like this:
  197.         ConvertOffset&& = temp& ' And then assign that long value to ConvertOffset&&.
  198.     $END IF
  199.     _MEMFREE m ' Free the memblock.
  200.  

The above takes a font, compresses it, and then converts it into a set of DATA statements which we can put into our programs.
 Then, we can read those values back into an array and use them to manually plot the character to the screen.  Going this route, we carry our own fonts inside our BAS code/program, and never have to worry about what code page the user has set as their default on their system.  ;)

It's basically the same process which I use with my custom text routines here: (http://qb64.freeforums.net/thread/37/custom-routines-supports-textures-shading), with the only real difference being that I've used the new routines in the development build to compress the font array and turn it into an easy to insert set of DATA statements. 
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