THIS PROJECT MUST RUN IN TURBO MODE!! You are stuck in a maze, and your belongings are scattered everywhere. Can you find your things and escape to Sweden before the missions reach 80? Use arrow keys to move, hold "L" to see a list of items, and hold the space bar to see a map of the maze. Also, avoid the bombs dropped by the M&M fighter plane.
This escape game is based on Joseph Heller's famous war novel Catch-22. It features Orr, Yossarian's roommate, as the main player who must navigate through a labyrinth and collect items before escaping to Sweden. The maze is randomly generated via a standard recursive algorithm that utilizes backtracking and has the shape of a WWII fighter plane. The eight items that must be found before exiting the maze are all connected to Orr and the novel in some way: a crab apple, a horse-chestnut, a rubber ball, a ping pong paddle, the woman's shoe, a fishing net, the heating stove from Yossarian’s tent, and a flag of Sweden. Most of these are things that came up in conversation between Orr and Yossarian (such as when Orr explains to Yossarian why he puts crab apples and horse-chestnuts in his cheeks). The Swedish flag is an allusion to the conversation about escaping to Sweden. Another thing to note is that the game has a mission count (in the top right corner) that shows how high the missions have been raised by Colonel Cathcart. In Heller’s novel, the missions aid the reader in contextualizing the various events and sorting them in chronological order. In this game, the missions serve a similar purpose: they show the progression of time. The game is lost once the missions are raised to 80 (which is the maximum number of missions reached in the book). Every so often, a fighter plane labeled “M&M” will fly over the maze and drop a bomb, which the player must avoid. This is a reference to Milo’s scheme to raise more money by bombing his own side. The game is won if the player collects all of the items and finds their way out of the plane. If they do so, they end up in Sweden, just as Orr does in the novel.
