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-Dank -Dungeon

Author:Brian Westley
Genres:Abuses
Surreal>Wordplay
Released:1994
Review:

A simple novelty: a game played at compile-time. Commands are given to the C preprocessor as variable definitions, as in "cc -Describe -Door westley.c", and the preprocessor provides output. Consequently, the game is stateless (although it pretends otherwise), and every word it recognizes starts with D. Content is typical old-school, very short, has a deliberate guess-the-noun puzzle at one point.

Rating: **

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (08 Mar 2003)

Competitions/
Awards:
Worst Abuse of the C Preprocessor, International Obfuscated C Code Contest 1994
Downloads:
IOCCC-1994-westley.zip (4.25 KB)
C source code


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