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A silly little adventure game of resource management and survival
Welcome, traveler! This is a silly little adventure game of the resource management / survival variety that can be played on a coffee break. It runs in text-mode and only needs the number keys for input.
Screenshot of the game in color (32K)
You can get the game from TildeGit:
Binaries included below for convenience:
Both archives include source code in the Nim programming language.
Get a move on every time you have the chance, but don't neglect rest, or your health. The game hints at how close you are to safety — watch for the jungle growing less dense — and tells you when you're starting to get tired. That happens more easily when you're hurt. Persist, there is an end to the journey.
Hidden command: pressing Escape or 0 (zero) in any menu interrupts the game.
Lost in the Jungle is open source under the MIT License. See the included file for details.
You can usually find me on IRC:
or else on Mastodon:
Would love to hear from you.
Color mode assumes a white-on-black terminal, and glitches if the defaults are reversed.
The game can be very random and that's been known to annoy some players.
Gameplay is also somewhat repetitive due to few different encounters.
The original ZX Spectrum game;
the Lua port on which this one is based.
Last modified on 16 August 2023.
