fall.pl -- a dumb game by Jason McIntosh

Help Don the Daredevil Dot steer clear of the sides of the bottomless
Crevasse of Stars, into which he has flung himself in search for fame
and glory. Sadly, he is very nearsighted, so since you can't see the
shape of the pit underneath him very well, you'll just have to try and
keep him clear of the walls. Don will happily collide with the walls
five times before calling it quits and retiring to a less demanding
pastime elsewhere in your computer.

Controls: 

Hit ENTER to toggle the direction of Don's fall: left or right. You
can't make him fall straight down, but you can kinda fake it by
holding down the ENTER key. However, this straight plunge makes Don
especially aerodynamic, and may greatly increase his downward
velocity. Be careful!

Scoring:

You score one point for every Don-length that Don falls before he
bumps five times into the starry walls, at which point the game shall
display your final score.

Tips: 

Don always begins his plummet from the left lip of the crevasse, and
starts to fall rightwards.

If Don still has lives left after smacking into a wall, he'll bounce
off of it and start falling in the opposite direction.

It is said that the Star Crevasse rather resents folks jumping into
it, and might sometimes try to confuse and endanger adventurous divers
by displaying nonsensical illusions. Stay alert!

Random notes:

This game serves as the author's entry into the 2000 Obfuscated Perl
Contest, held by The Perl Journal. While it is his first attempt at
such a competition, the program is actually a port of a game he wrote
in Apple BASIC in 1990, as a high school project.

COPYRIGHT 

fall.pl and this documentation file are both copyright (c) 2000 by
Jason McIntosh <jmac@jmac.org>. You may distribute them under the same
terms as Perl itself.
