Basic Games in Scheme

I use this little project to test algorithms and libraries, but it's marginally fun to play with some of these.

Download basicss-1.1

Install Chez Scheme
- Works on Mac and Linux. Might be usable in WSL on Windows?

./basicss, type ? at the prompt for interactive fun.

> ?
Basic_Games_in_Scheme
Version 1.1
© 2020-2025 by Mark Damon Hughes. All Rights Reserved.
https://mdhughes.tech/basicss
Commands:
acey, aceyducey     Card game of Hi/Lo.
banner W H TEXT...  Draw a banner, each char WxH sized, max 10.
bagel               Guess a 3-digit number with place hints.
bofh                BOFH Excuse Generator.
d, dice N S         Roll N number dice of S sides.
dwarfen             Explore the Stronghold of the Dwarfen Lords.
forest W H          Tiny forest, W H is screen width & height.
guess               Guess a number 1-100 with hi/lo hints.
hangman             Guess the word before you hang.
hurkle              Catch the Hurkle.
maze W H [STYLE PARAM]Maze generator. W H are size, 3-1024
    STYLE is one of (maze wild dungeon) (default maze)
    PARAM depends on style. For maze, it is chance of extra openings, 0-100 (default 0)
    For wild, it is terrain type: (generic plain cave desert forest hill marsh mountain water)
    'maze 38 11' fits nicely on screen.
name TYPE [COUNT]   Name generator, ? for list of types
roman N             Roman-Decimal converter. N may be either system.
seabattle           Sea battle.
slash W H           Simple slash maze generator. W H are size, 8+
        'slash 40 11' fits nicely on screen.
stars               Guess a number 1-100 with star hints.
starfield           Display a simple starfield.
survival            Survival in the woods.
wordsearch [FILENAME [ALPHABET]]Create a word search puzzle,
        words from filename or entered by hand.
quit                Quit.
?, help             Show this help.

./basicss wordsearch puzzle.txt 0123456789 for word search with words from puzzle.txt (one per line), and a new filler alphabet of just numbers.

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