Welcome to Bombs N' Bones! I made this game to learn some C++ and game development principles. I gave myself some constraints, like rogue-like mechanics, a simple interface using the terminal/console, and the requirement of procedural/random generation in order to encourage creativity. The maze generation algorithm went through several iterations, however, it is basically a slight modification of the Depth-First-Search (DFS) algorithm. The maze you play can practically be as large as you want, however, due to the nature of the algorithm and the fact that it's single-threaded, very large maze sizes (100+) may take unreasonably long to generate.

The aim of the game is to reach the exit with as much money as possible. The amount of money available varies with the specified map size and the drop chance from skeletons (bones). The initial positions for skeletons, bombs, money, the exit, and the entrance (where the player starts) are all randomly selected. The player can give up to three commands in any order during a "turn," so taking time to strategize your actions is preferred. The only failure condition is dying before reaching the end of the maze. 

This is a pretty rough build of the game, so please feel free to comment if you run into any bugs or issues running the game on your specific operating system and hardware. Both the windows and linux versions have been statically linked, so no external libraries should be needed. The windows version was compiled on windows 11, and the linux version was compiled on Debian 13.6 using WSL, so more exotic linux distributions (Arch, etc.) may not necessarily be supported. You can also comment and provide feedback on the gameplay itself, which I would greatly appreciate. This is a learning opportunity for me, and my first major C++ project.

Thank you for checking out the game!