Current Version: 1.0

Project Status: Completed

Highest Popularity: #19 during February 2010

Links: Web Site

Category: Puzzle

Developers: amarillion

Number of Players: 4 (Turn Based (Local))

Ports: Windows

Source Code: Available

Author's Description: Magic Maze is a puzzle game that was written for the speedhack competition.

The object of the game is to collect treasures in a maze you see from above. The game is turn based, each turn first you get to shift a part of the maze and then you get to move your guy. Play it alone, against the computer, or with friends

recent improvements (march 2002):
- proper timing, runs at same speed on every computer
- added 320x240 mode support, runs smooth even on the oldest computers
- improved graphics

The code should be linux compatible as well, but I haven't tried this. Let me know if you have success compiling this project under linux or any other platform.

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• 6Interesting idea. As well as a puzzle game, it can be a stratergy game where you prevent the other players getting to their treasure. Seeing the perspective is in 3D, the sprites could become small 3D models. Plays better with more players.
  Andrei Ellman
• 8A little complex and hard to control or understand... Also, not such a perfect idea. However, the effor put in this game is noticable - it's not lousy or sloppy - it's pretty good if you're talking about proffessionality.
  Ender Wiggin
• 8Great idea, good gameplay! I thought the player sprites could have used more detail and maybe should be drawn such that they didn't appear to lie in the same plane as the map, and I would have liked more than one chiptune as BGM, but these are minor.
  madpenguin

amarillion
I started programming on a ZX Spectrum+ when I was 9 years old or so. Via gwbasic and turbo pascal I ended up with C++ and allegro. I work in Bioinformatics research, and am Currently living in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (View Profile)