hunt - a multi-player multi-terminal game

The object of the game hunt is to kill off the other players. There are no 
rooms, no treasures, and no monsters. Instead, you wander around a maze, 
find grenades, trip mines, and shoot down walls and players. The more 
players you kill before you die, the better your score is. If the -m flag 
is given, you enter the game as a monitor (you can see the action but you 
cannot play).

When you die and are asked if you wish to re-enter the game, there are 
other answers than just yes or no. You can also reply with a w for write a 
message before continuing or o to change how you enter the game (cloaked, 
scanning, or flying).

Playing Hints

hunt only works on CRT (vdt) terminals with at least 24 lines, 80 columns, 
and cursor addressing. The screen is divided in to 3 areas. On the right 
hand side is the status area. It shows damage sustained, charges 
remaining, who's in the game, who's scanning (the ''*'' in front of the 
name), who's cloaked (the ''+'' in front of the name), and other players' 
scores. The rest of the screen is taken up by your map of the maze. The 
24th line is used for longer messages that don't fit in the status area.

hunt uses the same keys to move as vi(1) does, i.e., h, j, k, and l for 
left, down, up, right respectively. To change which direction you're 
facing in the maze, use the upper case version of the movement key (i.e., 
HJKL). You can only fire or throw things in the direction you're facing. 
Other commands are:

    f or 1
    Fire a bullet (Takes 1 charge)

    g or 2
    Throw grenade (Takes 9 charges)

    F or 3
    Throw satchel charge (Takes 25 charges)

    G or 4
    Throw bomb (Takes 49 charges)

    5' Throw big bomb (Takes 81 charges)

    6' Throw even bigger bomb (Takes 121 charges)

    7' Throw even more big bomb (Takes 169 charges)

    8' Throw even more bigger bomb (Takes 225 charges)

    9' Throw very big bomb (Takes 289 charges)

    0' Throw very, very big bomb (Takes 361 charges)

    @' Throw biggest bomb (Takes 441 charges)

    o' Throw small slime (Takes 5 charges)

    O' Throw big slime (Takes 10 charges)

    p' Throw bigger slime (Takes 15 charges)

    P' Throw biggest slime (Takes 20 charges)

    s' Scan (show where other players are) (Takes 1 charge)

    c' Cloak (hide from scanners) (Takes 1 charge)

    ^L' Redraw screen

    q' Quit

    The symbols on the screen are:
    -|+' walls
    /\' diagonal (deflecting) walls
    #' doors (dispersion walls)
    ;' small mine
    g' large mine
    :' bullet
    o' grenade
    O' satchel charge
    @' bomb
    s' small slime
    $' big slime
    ><^v
    you facing right, left, up, or down
    }{i!
    other players facing right, left, up, or down
    *' explosion
    \|/'
    -*-' grenade and large mine explosion
    /|\'

    Other helpful hints:

    * You can only fire in the direction you are facing.

    * You can only fire three shots in a row, then the gun must cool off.

    * Shots move 5 times faster than you do.

    * To stab someone, you face that player and move at them.

    * Stabbing does 2 points worth of damage and shooting does 5 points.

    * Slime does 5 points of damage each time it hits.

    * You start with 15 charges and get 5 more every time a player enters 
or re-enters.

    * Grenade explosions cover a 3 by 3 area, each larger bomb cover a 
correspondingly larger area (ranging from 5 by 5 to 21 by 21). All 
explosions are centered around the square the shot hits and do the most 
damage in the center.

    * Slime affects all squares it oozes over. The number of squares is 
equal to the number of charges used.

    * One small mine and one large mine is placed in the maze for every 
new player. A mine has a 2% probability of tripping when you walk forward 
on to it; 50% when going sideways; 95% when backing up. Tripping a mine 
costs you 5 points or 10 points respectively. Defusing a mine is worth 1 
charge or 9 charges respectively.

    * You cannot see behind you.

    * Cloaking consumes 1 ammo charge per 20 of your moves.

    * Turning on cloaking turns off scanning - turning on scanning turns 
off cloaking.

    * When you kill someone, you get 2 more damage capacity points and 2 
damage points get taken away.

    * Maximum typeahead is 5 characters.

    * A shot destroys normal (i.e., non-diagonal, non-door) walls.

    * Diagonal walls deflect shots and change orientation.

    * Doors disperse shots in random directions (up, down, left, right).

    * Diagonal walls and doors cannot be destroyed by direct shots but may 
be destroyed by an adjacent grenade explosion.

    * Slime goes around walls, not through them.

    * Walls regenerate, reappearing in the order they were destroyed. One 
percent of the regenerated walls will be diagonal walls or doors. When a 
wall is generated directly beneath a player, he is thrown in a random 
direction for a random period of time. When he lands, he sustains damage 
(up to 20 percent of the amount of damage already sustained); i.e., the 
less damage he had, the more nimble he is and therefore less likely to 
hurt himself on landing.

    * Every 30 deaths or so, a ''?'' will appear. It is a wandering bomb 
which will explode when it hits someone, or when it is slimed.

    * If no one moves, everything stands still.

    * It's a boring game if you're the only one playing.

    Your score is the decayed average of the ratio of number of kills to 
number of times you entered the game and is only kept for the duration of 
a single session of hunt.

Authors
Conrad Huang, Ken Arnold, and Greg Couch;
University of California, San Francisco, Computer Graphics Lab
Acknowledgements

We thank Don Kneller, John Thomason, Eric Pettersen, Mark Day, and Scott 
Weiner for providing endless hours of play-testing to improve the 
character of the game. We hope their significant others will forgive them; 
we certainly don't.
Bugs

To keep up the pace, not everything is as realistic as possible.