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It's amazing what you can do in so few lines of code. If you have the time you ought to do a tutorial on how to make this sort of game, it would be a great read.
It's old and C++ but explains raycasting very well.
And there is also a similar project in just 265 JS lines: http://www.playfuljs.com/a-first-person-engine-in-265-lines/
Like a sculpture made out of snot,you can applaud the elegance of the sculpture, and the elegance of the construction, but you have to wonder about the building material...
Man, that AWK looks a helluva lot like Javascript.
There is a bit of cheating going on here though. Awk doesn't support true multidimensional arrays. They are depending on a Gawk extension for that bit of functionality.
Man, that AWK looks a helluva lot like Javascript.
As in Javascript, awk represents all numeric values using double precision floating point. I have always thought that was a strange (but not necessarily bad) choice for a language that is basically all about text processing. I guess it works out pretty well if you need to do 3D graphics math. There is a bit of cheating going on here though. Awk doesn't support true multidimensional arrays. They are depending on a Gaw…