The Quantum Tunnels

A dungeon crawler designed for a quantum computer as a series of 17000 quantum gates.

But don't worry, you can play along at home using a simulator!

Features

16 different possible encounters (some friendly, some not)
7 different items with unique effects
multiple endings: some good, some bad, one true
rock/paper/scissors style combat system (but predictable if you take notes)
ASCII art, can be played in just a terminal
quantum puns and weird characters

How It Works

the game is represented by a 22-qubit quantum state
each turn you can change the first 3 qubits to choose your action (handled by "run.py")
the state is then put through the quantum circuit (given by "game.qasm") to produce the next state
each possible measured state has a corresponding ASCII output (stored in "outputs.json")

Dependencies

Requires Python and Qiskit,

Qiskit can be installed easily using pip:

pip3 install qiskit

Usage

Download the latest release here, or alternatively clone this repository.

Then run "run.py" as you would a normal Python script, e.g. on Linux:

python3 run.py

Achievements

You'll have to keep track of these yourself. Ranked in order of difficulty.

Bonus points if you speedrun getting all of these.

[EASY] die by eating too much
[EASY] die by tunnelling too far
[EASY] die by swapping health with a corridor
[EASY] die by breaking the game
[EASY] die by ignoring the bartender's warnings
[MEDIUM] find every different friendly event (over multiple runs)
[MEDIUM] complete a run having full health at the end
[MEDIUM] complete a run having no item at the end
[MEDIUM] loop back to the start
[MEDIUM] defeat every different enemy (over multiple runs)
[HARD] complete a run without ever taking damage
[HARD] defeat every different enemy (in a single run)
[HARD] return the bartender's missing chain
[HARD] reach the true end
[HARD] complete a run with each item (over multiple runs)

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