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Into The GarlicScape
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About the game
Into The GarlicScape is a miniature roguelike. You play a woolly little adventurer who heads down into a dungeon to gather garlic. Every move you make is one turn, and after each step the creatures around you take theirs.
The first rooms are fixed, but after that every flight of stairs leads to a new, randomly built floor with garlic, monsters and sometimes a friendly llama. Collect fifteen bulbs and the next stairs take you to the chamber of the chalice, where picking up one more bulb wins the game. You have three hearts: moths flutter about at random, roaches crawl along the walls, and either one hurts you if it moves onto your square. Bumping into a llama gives it a hug and restores all your hearts.
John Earnest wrote it as an example program for Octojam 7, to show how a small turn-based game can be put together, and it is a complete game in its own right.
Playing it here
This is a CHIP-8 program. CHIP-8 is a small virtual machine from 1977, created for hobby computers like the COSMAC VIP, and people still write new games for it today. Into The GarlicScape targets XO-CHIP, a modern extension that adds colour, more memory and better sound. It runs here in the Octo emulator.
Click Play, then walk right along the corridor on the title screen and step onto the stairs to begin. F2 saves the state of the emulator at any moment and F4 brings it back. A gamepad works too: the D-pad moves and A dismisses screens.
Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| W A S D or arrow keys | move one square (each step is a turn); walk into stairs, garlic, moths and llamas to use them |
| E or Space | continue after the game over or victory screen |
| F2 / F4 | save / load the state |
A few things worth knowing
Moths are fragile. Walking into a moth squashes it, so you can clear one out of your way. Roaches can't be squashed: they keep to the wall on their right, which makes their route predictable enough to step around.
Save llamas for later. A llama refills all three hearts, but only up to three. If you are already healthy, leave it and come back after a scrape.
Two test keys were left in. Key 1 takes away a heart and key 2 adds a point to your garlic count. They were debugging aids, so avoid 1 unless you like a challenge.
Credits and licence
Into The GarlicScape was created by John Earnest, who also wrote the Octo toolchain and emulator and maintains the Chip8 Community Archive. The game is in the public domain under CC0 1.0, like everything in that archive, and the Octo emulator is released under the MIT licence. The licence text is linked from this page.