What’s more impressive, the fact that this Wolfenstein-like game is 600 lines of code, or that it’s written in AWK?
AWK is a language primarily used for text processing. But if you can write code the world bows to your wishes. [Fedor Kalugin] leverages the ability of a Linux terminal’s color options to draw his game. The 3D aspect is produced through ray-casting which generates a 2D image from 3D coordinates.
Trying out the game is extremely simple, install gawk, clone the repo, and play:
