EGRESS

Inspiration

Inspiration for EGRESS came from old MS-DOS text-based adventure games.

What it does

EGRESS is a text-based RPG made entirely in batch script that runs fully in command prompt. Explore an unknown forest and experience multiple endings in this replayable role playing game.

How we built it

We built EGRESS through batch script, a very limited high level program made for running commands on cmd prompt.

Challenges we ran into

Batch is a very limited program. The game essentially had to be made in a singular "main" script that jumped from countless one-use functions. Batch also doesn't allow you adjust variables within the bounds of a conditional, and has three types of variables - numericals, strings, and inputs. Programming in batch was very different from any language any of us had ever learned.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning a new coding language that none of our group members were familiar with was quite the feat. I am now confident in my ability to code rudimentary to medium scale programs in batch script.