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DOT DASH PIT
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About the game
DOT DASH PIT is a small arena game with an unusual weapon: Morse code. You stand in a walled pit while enemies appear around you, each with a letter in a little box next to it. To destroy an enemy, you key its letter in dots and dashes. Every enemy that shares that letter is wiped out at once, with a laser or a blast.
You can also walk around to keep your distance, but that is all the defence you have. The first waves are a few motionless targets, then come jittery enemies, ones that bounce off the walls, lazy ones that drift towards you now and then, and finally steady followers. Every second wave brings one more enemy, and from the seventh wave on the types mix freely and move at random speeds. One touch ends the run. Tougher enemies are worth more points.
Playing it here
DOT DASH PIT was made for TIC-80, a fantasy console: an imaginary 1980s-style computer with a 240 by 136 screen and 16 colours, for which independent developers write new games. It runs here in the official TIC-80 web player. Click Play and press any key to start.
Your high score is saved in this browser. Esc opens the TIC-80 menu. A gamepad works directly, and on touch screens an on-screen D-pad and buttons appear; any of the four buttons can be used as the Morse key.
Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys | move |
| Z, X, A or S (A, B, X, Y buttons) | Morse key: quick tap = dot, longer press = dash |
| (short pause) | send the letter you keyed |
| Any key (title, game over) | start / play again |
| Esc | TIC-80 menu |
A few things worth knowing
Hints appear up close. You do not need to know Morse code to start. When an enemy gets close, the dots and dashes for its letter are shown under its box, so you can copy them, if you keep your nerve.
Watch the bottom of the screen. The symbols you are keying show in the middle, and the letters you have sent so far scroll on the left. A space there means the last sequence was not a valid letter: wait a moment and try again.
Timing matters more than speed. A press shorter than about a fifth of a second counts as a dot, anything longer as a dash, and a pause of about half a second sends the letter. Rushing tends to merge two letters into one invalid code.
Credits and licence
DOT DASH PIT was created by He4eT, who wrote the code in JavaScript and made the graphics and sounds. It is free software under the MIT licence. It runs here in the TIC-80 web player (MIT licence). The licence text is linked from this page.