Write a maze runner game in Python
This series of tutorials has seen us generate some fantastic replicas of retro video games, using Python. In past issues, we’ve create a lunar landing module game, a side-scrolling platformer, Pac-Man, Pong, the Game of Life, a bunny shooter, a racing game, and even an Angry Birds clone.
Python is one of the most versatile programming languages around. It’s incredibly high level, making it very accessible, yet it can perform complex tasks. That’s why we’re able to recreate video games that would’ve taken a tremendous amount of processing power when they were first released, in just a few lines of code and using very few resources.
This issue we’re going to create a maze runner. Maze runners were popular in the 1970s and 1980s, and tend to feature a player character, which usually consists of an oblong shape, traversing through a two-dimensional room of blockades and obstacles. Once the player reaches the other side running on the original MIT TX-0 mainframe. With Atari creating the first commercial maze game in 1973, though (Sega, 1979) and (Stern, 1980)are perhaps better remembered from this era.
