Mr. Anderson's Matrix Escape

Installation

This game is designed for the TIC-80 fantasy computer. To play, follow these steps:

1. Download and Install TIC-80: If you don't already have it, download the TIC-80 fantasy computer from its official website: https://tic80.com/
2. Launch TIC-80: Start the TIC-80 application.
3. Load the Game:
   • Navigate to the directory where game.lua is located using the TIC-80 command line (e.g., cd /Users/tasi/Library/Application Support/com.nesbox.tic/TIC-80/mranderson/).
   • Type load game.lua and press Enter.
   • Once loaded, type run and press Enter to start the game.

Story: The Coder's Lament

Before he was "The One," before he dodged bullets and shattered the illusion, Thomas Anderson was just a software developer named Neo. Trapped in a cubicle farm of endless bugs and looming deadlines, Neo's days were a monotonous cycle of debugging legacy code, attending pointless meetings, and battling unresponsive APIs. Each line of code felt like a chain, each project a heavier burden, pulling him deeper into a digital malaise.

He yearned for something more, a glitch in the system, a whisper of a different reality. His fingers, calloused from countless hours on the keyboard, danced across cryptic forums late at night, searching for answers, for meaning beyond the mundane syntax of his corporate prison. The coffee flowed freely, the pizza boxes piled high, and the lines of code blurred into an indistinguishable stream of ones and zeros.

This game chronicles Mr. Anderson's final, desperate struggles within the software development matrix. Navigate the labyrinthine codebase, escape the relentless pursuit of project managers (Agents), and uncover the hidden truths that will lead him to question everything he knows. Will he find the "red pill" in a sea of green code, or will he forever be just another drone in the system?