___La chasse à la liberté / The hunt for freedom___
TI-Concours 2013 entry, asm category

This is a spin-off of the classic "whack-a-mole" game. Rather than attack little animales that never bite back, i thought why not take the role of mole and bite back those who whack us?

Intro:
The state has kidnapped you and jailed you for some crime or another, who knows really. It doesn't really matter, either way you're here wasting away with the days as you try desperately to feel something other than fear and self-pity. You decide you've had enough of this passive life, no longer will you accept the judgements and abuses of some unknown power-hungry psychos, it's time to move onto action! The duty of every prisoner is to escape, so get to it! On your path to freedom there will be many ill-intending wretches trying to step in your way and stop you. Take them down, go around them, whatever, just get the hell outta here! Good luck!

Menu controls
  [2nd]		= OK
 [Clear]	= quit (if you have a high score and quit with [Clear], it won't be saved. You have to escape or die, no quitters!)
[Flechas]	= move selector

In-game controls:
[2nd]/[/\]/[0]	= jump
[<-]/[->]		= move side to side
[\/]			= duck/crouch
[7][8][9]
[4][5][6]		= attack the shitheads!
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The game:
You start off in your cell and need to find the exit. Guards will show up from time to time, if you don't kill them soon enough they'll pull out their gun and try to shoot you down. If you attack where there's no guard, you'll have wasted time. If you take too long, the guards will overwhelm you and send you downstream with the other failed escapees. There are points, but what better prize can there be than your freedom?!

4000kb:
There were lots of other things i wanted to add, but the contest had a size limit of 4kb. I had to trim down/limit the levels and tiles, remove some texts, etc. just to release this vesion. If you have any suggestions for a more complete version, feel free to get in touch. Failing that, the source code is included and can be used without restrictions. No copyleft, no copyright, just copy and do whatever you want with it! Who knows if i really wrote any of this anyway?

Final note:
Luckily this is just a game. If you fail you can just start over again. For a lot of people there is no second chance, many have already lost their lives (or large portions of it) in their "HUNT FOR FREEDOM". If you one day you find yourself on the other side of those grimy walls, keep your head up. Don't let them break your spirit! And above all, i wish you a quick escape!

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I'd like to dedicate this game to Gabriel Pombo da Silva, currently captive of the Spanish state. The prison system has tried to steal 20+ years of their life, locking them away for 14 years in the high security FIES isolation regimen in Spain, where they've constantly protested against the system of torture, both physical and mental, employed there. In 2003 they escaped from prison but were arrested nearly a year later after continuing their struggle for freedom.

"Now i know why i am where i am, why they lock me away and hide me.
Now i know why so many die disconnected from it all, why others live in terror, why they've created this system that so closely resembles an advertisement.
Now i know that nothing is like they tell us, that everything is discovered through our own gaze, that the TRUTH (in capital letters), is nothing more than a tall tale.
Now i know that i'll never bow my head, that i'll never say like an ass "yes sir", that i'll only speak with my equals as we
convert life into a revolt of love...
Now i know why things are as they are, and why i am the way i am."
-Gabriel Pombo da Silva
