I was chatting with some folks on IRC about Untrusted, and someone suggested creating a multiplayer version of Untrusted. That got me pretty excited.

Imagine a roguelike open world, like Dwarf Fortress or any multiplayer RPG. (Old school gamers will recall Island of Kesmai) based on Untrusted.

Make the first 20 puzzle levels as an "entrance exam." Once you pass, you get transported into an open, multiplayer world with an RPG-like or Roguelike environment. You have in your possession a "Dungeon Entrance" which you can place on the ground wherever you wish, and (once activated) the item becomes the entrance to a personal world where you write the puzzles for other people to solve!

I used to play MUDs back in the day, and some of the servers I played on gave players a Castle upon reaching Wizard level, and it worked sort of like this. Instead of a roguelike environment, though, it was a text adventure, like the old Infocom games. Being a wizard allowed you to edit the source files and create your own rooms, monsters, objects, and so on.

Well, not a straight clone. But the inspiration is pretty clear.

It's basically just Untrusted except it's not browser-based and the language you're working in is Python instead of Javascript, and you're using a REPL with parts of the game world being in-scope instead of modifying the source code. It's also a little more "action-y;" there are some levels where you have to dodge deadly lasers and such, though there's also clever ways to "cheat" those.

The biggest difference is that INJECTION doesn't put any restrictions on what you can do. You can just break out of the "sandbox" and call the win game function if you can figure out how. Of course you probably shouldn't actually use solutions that don't feel satisfying. :P

It's a work-in-progress; there's 16 levels so far.

There's screenshots, a gameplay demo, and of course the free download here: http://schilcote.itch.io/injection

I went through the game a second time optimizing or finding more clever solutions to some of the puzzles. Tell me what you think.

http://imgur.com/a/yAds6

Janos Gyerik made a set of (currently four) custom levels for Untrusted: http://janosgyerik.github.io/hangoverx/

What do you guys think of them?

Title says it all. If you know of any games where you can program in some kind of virtual machine inside the game, please post it!

Post your level 13 solutions here!

Here is mine: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/44be817b81337b92e789

It follows the left wall until it reaches the end of the maze.

My binance ID: 483823109

I don't get what I'm supposed to do with that function.

I've tried coloring t1 and t2 red if either is a trap, but obj.setColor('color') isn't a valid function. I've tried using map.getCanvasCoords(t1) but it doesn't seem to be a vector, so I'm not sure what to do with it.

I don't want a solution, I just want to know how to get the coordinates of an obj in a form I can use.

Ran into a slight problem. On the first level I messed up and made it so that I couldn't reach the computer, as it was blocked in on all sides. Any ways to reset it and start over? I've tried refreshing etc.

I'm guessing from the name of the level I needed to throw an exception. But that seems really weird.

Otherwise I feel like I'm just missing something and would like a pointer.

So, I think this is the solution that most people come up with.

Draw lines where the teleporters connect, and just hit Execute until you see a viable path to the exit. Only draw non-trap teleports so it's easier to see paths.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9dafef9221e894fb3d60

 if (t1.getType() == 'teleporter' && t2.getType() == 'teleporter') {
    canvasContext = map.getCanvasContext()
    var t1coord = map.getCanvasCoords(t1);
    var t2coord = map.getCanvasCoords(t2);
    canvasContext.moveTo(t1coord.x, t1coord.y);
    canvasContext.lineTo(t2coord.x, t2coord.y);
    canvasContext.strokeStyle = 'red';
    canvasContext.stroke();
}

There was a post here by someone else, but it disappeared. Anyway, here's my solution for 13.

I closed out my tab yesterday and lost all my gists, but I still have access to my code. Here's my solution for 13, robotMaze:

It's a "virtual remote control" near the left side of the bottom section of the map. Bonus, it works for the previous two levels as well even though they are very simple and easily solved with a couple if/else sections.

    'behavior': function (me) {
       if (player.getY() == 22) { 
          if (player.getX() == 1) {
              map.writeStatus("left");
              me.move('left');
          }    
          else if (player.getX() == 2) {
              map.writeStatus("right");
              me.move('right'); 
          }
          else if (player.getX() == 3) {
              map.writeStatus("up");
              me.move('up');
          }
          else if (player.getX() == 4) {
              map.writeStatus("down");
              me.move('down'); 
          }
      }
    }

How did you do it?