An game-shaped object made for this new decade of the 2020s. This object and it's assorted libraries that make it will be incredible helpful for those learning about programming, especially of the C/C++ fare. Will be of great importance for education.

...Video game? Oh yeah, I honestly see this more as a tech demo. In terms of the player-side functionality, it's like a wonky Wolfenstein 3D demake for the Pico-8. And that's not far from the truth: on both the official Gitlab source page and Gitlab Pages, it's big targets had included two embedded console-esque devices like the Pokitty and ESPboy, and straight-up terminal output. The embedded devices are of an even more low-end tier than the Raspberry Pi, on par with a J2ME phone from 2003. It's indeed impressive, but the necessary compromises needed to run on all of these limited devices carries over to modern x86 computers. Major levels of sprite pop-in, and a soundtrack of stark sawtooth waves. The technical limitations are deeply self-evident within even the main menu and first level.

Anarch is a truly anarchist video game: it gets down to the gritty detail of function and resilience down to a legitimately admirable degree, to the point where it completely forgets that it was a political movement and not an activist's literary magazine.

Reviewed on May 03, 2022


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