Bug Hunt

A terminal-based shoot-em-up where you exterminate bugs before they crash the build.

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Bugs drift down through a backdrop of real kernel vulnerabilities. Shoot them before they reach you - every bug that breaks through costs a life and 15% build progress. Clear all bugs to advance to the next wave.

Screenshots

Run it in your terminal it looks better live. B-)

Requirements

• Linux / macOS terminal (256-colour support recommended)
• GCC
• make

Build & Run

make
./bughunt

Controls

Key	Action
A / ←	Move left
D / →	Move right
Space / W / ↑	Shoot
Q / Ctrl+C	Quit

Gameplay

• 5 lives - a bug reaching your position costs one life and 15% build health.
• Build % - starts at 100%. Reaches 0% = game over. Clear waves to recover it.
• Waves - each wave spawns more bugs of higher types. Every 3rd wave includes a SIGSEGV Boss.
• Score - each kill earns points based on bug type.

Bug Types

Symbol	Name	Difficulty
@	NullPointer	Easy
%	SegFault	Easy
&	StackOverflow	Medium
?	IndexError	Medium
$	TypeError	Medium
~	MemoryLeak	Hard
#	RaceCondition	Hard
*	BufferOverflow	Hard
X	SIGSEGV Boss	Boss

License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.