Lad 2024

A puzzle game for the WASM-4 fantasy console.

How to play

Maybe it's simplest to run it on your browser.

• On wasm4.org

• An alternative hosting on my GitHub pages

• A development snapshot for testing

Operations

WASM-4 Gamepad button	Operation
UP DOWN RIGHT LEFT	Move the current player
X	Toggle players
Z + UP	Give up and reset the stage
Z + DOWN	Undo a move
Z + RIGHT	Move to the next stage (hold to move faster)
Z + LEFT	Move to the previous stage (hold to move faster)

You can use the mouse (or maybe screen tap on phone-like devices) for some of operations.

Left click / tap on	Operation
An empty location	Move to the location if possible
The current player	Switch to the next player
An object next to the current player	Push it
The other player (not next to you)	Switch to the player

Save data

The game progress is automatically saved and restored.

History

In 1994, I've written the original version of this game. It was in x86 assembler for the NEC PC-9800 series.

In 2024, I found it in one of the unlabelled MO disks ¹ that came out from the back of the shelf and ported it to the WASM-4 fantasy console.

Messages to myself in 1994

• Please write comments.

• Please document your domain-specific compression format for the stage data.

• I couldn't even figure out what "LAD" stands for.

Footnotes

1. These MO disks were perfectly readable after thirty years. I only had to purchase an used MO drive with USB interface because I no longer had a working SCSI setup. Thirty years ago, I never imagined 50-pin SCSI would disappear. Luckily, as MO drives were somehow popular here in Japan, a lot of used MO drives in a good condition are still available. For some reason, MO drives were far more popular than ZIP in Japan. ↩