https://github.com/stasm/bookofsand

A simple roguelike about spelling words.
https://github.com/stasm/bookofsand

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A simple roguelike about spelling words.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stasm/bookofsand
• Owner: stasm
• License: isc
• Created: 2016-06-22T17:08:27.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-07-02T15:43:27.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-04T02:43:50.407Z (12 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 52.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
        The Book of Sand

                He told me his book was called the Book of Sand, because 

                neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end.

                — Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Book of Sand’

You have come into the possesion of the Book of Sand.  The number of pages in 

the book is no more or less than infinite.  None is the first page, none the 

last.  Every time you leaf through its pages new words appear before your eyes.

What word will it be today?

        Background

The Book of Sand (BoS) is a simple roguelike game.  The player's goal is to 

capture letters until they can use them to spell a whole word.

The Book of Sand is a learning project for me to get more familiar with C.

        Build and Play

Just `make` and run `./bookofsand` in the working directory.

        Influences

The theme of the game is inspired by ‘The Book of Sand,’ a short story by Jorge 

Luis Borges.

The game play has been influenced by Jeff Lait's Letter Hunt [1].  I also 

learned a lot by reading the code of flend's ZigClimb [2] and Jakub 

Wasilewski's A Journey To Hell [3] and Another Visit In Hell [4].  Steven 

Feurst's 512-byte roguelike [5] and the accompanying article [6] were extremely 

helpful in understanding the structure of small roguelikes.  Last but not 

least, Craig Stickel's Beginner's Guide to Roguelikes in C/C++ [7] and 

golergka's c-roguelike [8] helped me structure the code better.

        License

ISC; see the LICENSE file.

        References

[1]: http://www.zincland.com/7drl/letterhunt/

[2]: http://flend.net/zigclimb/index.html

[3]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.games.roguelike.development/KkTsQtHyi5E/p2NuwUd5DgIJ

[4]: http://wasyl.eu/games/another-visit-in-hell.html

[5]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.roguelike.development/9j1-X9EwvfA

[6]: http://www.locklessinc.com/articles/512byte_roguelike/

[7]: http://www.kathekonta.com/rlguide/

[8]: https://github.com/golergka/c-roguelike