FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

Description:
Here's a mod that is based on an old BASIC script that I used to play around with back in the early 1980s(!).

The player crafts a Maze Generating Block, which when right-clicked, opens an interactive form that allows the player to select wall and floor materials, as well as the width of the maze (odd numbers less than 93). Then the player left-clicks the Maze Generating Block and it randomly generates a 3-block high, hedge maze, complete with a start and finish.

Recipe:


Mod dependencies: default, wool

License:
Sourcecode: WTFPL
Graphics: WTFPL

Thanks to mauvebic for showing me how to replace goto statements with recursive functions, to make the mod work on linux servers as well.

Download:
https://github.com/thefamilygrog66/maze/archive/master.zip

Browse code on GitHub:
https://github.com/thefamilygrog66/maze

Screenshots:

Maze Generating Block placed on the ground


Menu to change settings, with defaults shown


An aerial view of the default generated hedge maze (39x39 wool:dark_green walls and default:desert_stone floor)


A treetop maze with default:leaves walls and default:tree floor


Walls of default:ice with default:dirt_with_snow floor


Hell maze, with default:obsidian walls and default:lava_source floor!


The original BASIC program (for Commodore 64)

Very cool!

With a downloadlink it would be even cooler.

It would be more interesting if these randomly generated in deserts.

Inocudom wrote:It would be more interesting if these randomly generated in deserts.

Possibly could use a different material depending on the biome: ice in snow biome, leaves in grassland, and cactus in desert?

^ Nice idea, could put default:tree in the ground to stop leaf decay, would be enough for 3 nodes height.
Good mod, ideal for naughty games in mansion gardens etc.

Cool ideas guys, thanks. I'll try to incorporate a few of them in future versions.

I've finished working on it for now, and have uploaded it to GitHub - check out the first post for links!

Nice.
This could be added to a mansion, by a tennis court or swimming pool ingame.

Wow PEEK and POKE, i started progamming in BASIC in 1982 on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K.

paramat wrote:Wow PEEK and POKE, i started progamming in BASIC in 1982 on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K.

Cool! I started at school in 1981 on a Commodore PET, and my first home computer was also a Sinclair - the Timex Sinclair 1000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000), before getting a Commodore 64. Good times!

maybe few different sized ones too.

Ah i didn't know you had a version of the ZX81 over there. Looks like you got a modified ZX Spectrum as a Timex Sinclair 2068. Unsurprisingly one of my favourite games was Jet Set Willy (platform game kids).

Wow, I'm not the only old fart on this forum. ;^P

I remember those days. :)

Very nice.

Does this have a pathfinding code to ensure that mazes are solvable?

Thanks for the comments - I'll have a new version on GitHub a bit later today, which will allow players to specify wall and floor materials, as well as maze size.

hoodedice wrote:Does this have a pathfinding code to ensure that mazes are solvable?

As long as the maze is an odd number of nodes wide - a rule that is enforced when the size is selected - the generating algorithm ensures that each corner is open, so there will always be a path from start to end.

hoodedice wrote:Does this have a pathfinding code to ensure that mazes are solvable?

As long as the maze is an odd number of nodes wide - a rule that is enforced when the size is selected - the generating algorithm ensures that each corner is open, so there will always be a path from start to end.

Sweet.

I've just made a fairly major update: now the mod includes an interface menu in which the player can choose materials for the walls and floor, as well as the width of the maze (odd numbers, less than 100 blocks).

Enjoy!

nice

Hell maze looks good you could have lava under glass as a floor to make it walkable.

Just uploaded a new version which replaces the goto statements with recursive functions (thanks mauvebic!), so that the mod will also work on linux servers.

Another maze mod:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=2814
This one has closing doors, torches and chests with items.

It's nice to see that it can be done differently.

Bas080 wrote:Another maze mod:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?id=2814
This one has closing doors, torches and chests with items.

It's nice to see that it can be done differently.

Yeah, for sure - I saw that mod after I'd made my first version. Looks like it uses a different algorithm to generate the maze, but still very cool.