synacor

After playing the Advent of Code of 2022, I wanted to check if in the wild there were similar programming challanges. Luckily the author is a goldmine of ideas, and that's how I ended up discovering this great challenge. It has been quite a journey, but very rewarding eventually! It has been lots of fun finding my way through the 8 riddles, also because I learned a lot while playing. It has also been an excuse to play with a different programming language since there were no limitation about it. Once a man said to me: "Every programmer in their life should implement at least once a CPU or an emulator..." and here we go!

You can find the challenge instructions and data at this link. Give it a chance and you won't be disappointed, "I give you my word as Junior Woodchucks"!

Getting started

The solution has been entirely writte in Perl v5.36, which is already present by default in most of GNU/Linux distributions, but is also available on Windows platform.

git clone https://github.com/A-725-K/synacor.git
cd synacor
./main.pl

Once the emulator is started you can provide commands for the game by just typing them after the prompt > while if you want to run a command in the debugger you have to use @ as prefix. For more information type:

• help: to get information about the possible game actions
• @help, @h, @?: to get the list of available debugger commands