TWIFComp

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:06 pm

I submitted a game to TWIFComp. The rules were, the source had to be 140 or fewer non-whitespace characters.

http://dhakajack.templaro.com/node/56

Here's the readme:

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REQUIREMENTS&#58;

A system running Linux &#40;i386, x86_64, ppc, armv5tel, or s390&#41;
The tar and gzip utilities in $PATH somewhere
Perl at /usr/bin/perl, /usr/bin in $PATH
About 500MB free disk space &#40;not kidding&#41;

Instructions&#58;
unpack distribution
./mma.pl

The source code will be found in&#58;
workspace/sources/MMA.inform/Source/story.ni

And here's my proof that it's legal&#58;
adam@mini311&#58;~/src/spacifier$ ls -l mma.pl; < mma.pl perl -pe 's/\s*//g' | wc -c
 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 adam adam 339147099 2010-04-21 23&#58;36 mma.pl
137

Yes, that's right. 137 non-whitespace characters....and 339 million whitespace. Here's the non-whitespace:

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#!/usr/bin/perl
open&#40;O,">t"&#41;;while&#40;<DATA>&#41;&#123;s/\t/                /g;&#40;$c&#41;=&#40;/^&#40;\ *&#41;$/&#41;;print O chr&#40;length&#40;$c&#41;&#41;&#125;;close O;`gzip -dc t|tar xpf -`;system&#40;"./a"&#41;;
__DATA__

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:51 pm

You didn't.

You didn't.

You couldn't have... I ... I heard someone made a game in that whitespace language, but that's just a - it's an untested prototype!

No way. No friggin' way!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:03 pm

I don't even know what the game is, but you win.

**** You have won ****

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:44 pm

I will be outraged if Bruce doesn't win the Twitter Comp. I would like to say that I have not played any other entries yet, so my opinion is unvalued. But 337 million white spaces & Stiffy Makane? You've won.

How much of the game is included, Bruce?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:40 pm

I think it will not win because it does not keep with the "spirit" of the competition.

However, it has won our hearts and minds.

Which is much more, or less, important.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sat May 01, 2010 10:03 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I will be outraged if Bruce doesn't win the Twitter Comp. I would like to say that I have not played any other entries yet, so my opinion is unvalued. But 337 million white spaces & Stiffy Makane? You've won.

How much of the game is included, Bruce?

Pretty much everything I've written so far...although the game arbitrarily ends when you get to Darkest Africa, but since you have the source, you can fix that.

What I have so far is probably 75-80% of the whole game.

Bruce

sgranade · Post by **sgranade** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:05 am

Hey, congrats on your TWIFComp placement!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon May 03, 2010 10:38 am

That's pretty bad ass. I'm so verbose, it takes me 140 characters to say that I'm about to say something. Coding anything that does anything in that amount of space is impressive.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon May 03, 2010 4:18 pm

bruce wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I will be outraged if Bruce doesn't win the Twitter Comp. I would like to say that I have not played any other entries yet, so my opinion is unvalued. But 337 million white spaces & Stiffy Makane? You've won.

How much of the game is included, Bruce?
Pretty much everything I've written so far...although the game arbitrarily ends when you get to Darkest Africa, but since you have the source, you can fix that.

What I have so far is probably 75-80% of the whole game.

Bruce

Bruce got second place in the TWIFCOMP. Congratulations, Bruce!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon May 03, 2010 4:25 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon May 03, 2010 7:08 pm

Someone else took first place. Explain your "?".

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon May 03, 2010 7:31 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Someone else took first place. Explain your "?".

!

I think Pinback had been playing the winning entry.

I can't wait for my tasty tasty ramen.

Bruce

sgranade · Post by **sgranade** » Tue May 04, 2010 6:47 am

Wait, wait, wait. Clearly we need to get your prize switched from ramen to a bowl of dry cheerios.