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Enchanted Forest (TI-83)

An adaptation of Enchanted Forest II. Created this myself in 2004. Spent much of my spare time in 11th grade coding up a version of Enchanted Forest (rinkworks.com/forest) for my calculator. I've since lost it, which makes me very sad because prior to the ETC it was probably my greatest game-programming accomplishment. When it was finished, I was thrilled to discover that it was actually fun!

Memory was fairly limited on the calculator, so I ended up storing a lot of game-state by writing and reading pixels on the screen. For example, whether a space was unvisited, visited, or a tree could be determined by reading a pixel from that space on the screen. I also implemented my own screen font to save space.