FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL

Source: Hacker News

FPS.cob is what you get when you decide that game development is too easy nowadays. Enjoy what can only be described as an out-of-body experience in the ways of COBOL tomfoolery.

It supports two level styles:

• map/level1.map: the original grid-based Wolf3D-style path.

• map/doom_sectors.map: a sector/linedef map with doors, different heights (so DOOM-like).

Requirements

• cobc

• ffplay

• bash

Run

From the repo root:

bash build.sh

To load a specific map:

bash build.sh ./map/level1.map bash build.sh ./map/doom_sectors.map

Controls

• W / S: move forward and backward

• A / D: turn left and right

• Space: fire

• Q: quit

Assets

Textures and sprites live under res/. Maps live under map/.