Worm

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JS Worm v1.42 This is a clone of the classic Unix game 'Worm', originally distributed with

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix in the 1980s. Worm is originally by Michael Toy of UC Santa Cruz, and this clone by me, Joshua

Braun, is released under an MIT Open Source License and dedicated to Alex Braun. This version of Worm, while faithful to the classic, is a clone rather than a

port of the original code—mostly because I figured it'd be more fun to reverse

engineer the game than to rework the original source. The "Modern Terminal Emulator" backdrop is a public domain image from

Wikmedia Commons.

From the original: You are a little worm, your body is the "o"'s on the screen and your head is the

"@". You move with the hjkl keys (as in the game snake). If you don't press any

keys, you continue in the direction you last moved. The upper case HJKL keys

move you as if you had pressed several (9 for HL and 5 for JK) of the

corresponding lower case key (unless you run into a digit, then it stops). On the screen you will see a digit, if your worm eats the digit is will grow

longer, the actual amount longer depends on which digit it was that you ate. The

object of the game is to see how long you can make the worm grow. The game ends when the worm runs into either the sides of the screen, or itself.

The current score (how much the worm has grown) is kept in the upper right corner

of the screen. Some additional notes: As in the original game, the arrow keys will also work to move your worm. Other

Unix commands will work here, too, such as Ctrl-z to suspend (pause) the game,

and Ctrl-c to kill the process (quit the game). The navigation menu options can

be accessed using the Alt key in combination with the underlined character (e.g,

Alt-i for this text). Have fun!

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