Discover PacVim

[maiki]

Continuing the discussion from Process the DO apps:

@maiki

PacVim

PacVim is a game that will teach you how to use the vim text editor.

Ha!

Getting started after deploying PacVim

To play, ssh into your Droplet and then run:

pacvim [LEVEL_NUMBER] [MODE]

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You may specify the starting level and mode ( n and h for normal/hard). Default mode is hard:

pacvim 8 n

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How To Play

The objective of PacVim is very similar to PacMan.

You must run over all the characters on the screen while avoiding the ghosts (red G ).

PacVim has two special obstacles:

1. You cannot move into the walls (yellow color). You must use vim motions to jump over them.
2. If you step on a tilde character (cyan ~ ), you lose!You are given three lives. You gain a life each time you beat
   level 0, 3, 6, 9, etc. There are 10 levels, 0 through 9. After
   beating the 9th level, the game is reset to the 0th level, but
   the ghosts move faster. Winning conditions: Use vim commands to move the cursor

over the letters and highlight them. After all letters are

highlighted, you win and proceed to the next level.

Losing conditions: If you touch a ghost (indicated

by a red G ) or a tilde character, you lose a life. If you

have less than 0 lives, you lose the entire game.

List of Implemented Commands

key	what it does
q	quit the game
h	move left
j	move down
k	move up
l	move right
w	move forward to next word beginning
W	move forward to next WORD beginning
e	move forward to next word ending
E	move forward to next WORD ending
b	move backward to next word beginning
B	move backward to next WORD beginning
$	move to the end of the line
0	move to the beginning of the line
gg/1G	move to the beginning of the first line
number G	move to the beginning of the line given by number
G	move to the beginning of the last line
^	move to the first word at the current line
&	1337 cheatz (beat current level)

And for the fancy among you:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
    '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image":"sharklabs-pacvim-18-04"}' \
    "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"

Or, ya know, maybe install it locally.

This is a great quest because it will be on the boards of two expansions. Wait, have I explained expansions? Hmmm, nevermind! PacVim!

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Play it!