The Green Hills Saga

March, 2021 was the month of the (perhaps first) Maximite One Page Programming challenge. The essential rule was, create the most amazing program possible using just a single built-in editor page of source text. Loosely modeled after the long running BASIC 10-Liner Competition, a full editor page was chosen to enable the creation of really polished programs. I quickly whipped up as close a clone as possible of the classic Space Invaders, which fit comfortably within the size limit of 48 lines of 100 characters in the CMM2 editor. For silliness, I chose the name "In Defence of the Green Hills of Earth". I decided to keep going and created a Missile Command clone, titled "In Renewed Defence of the Green Hills". But why stop there? For my pièce de résistance, I was able to compress an eight level 3-D maze program into a single page. "Escape to the Green Hills" was my actual contest entry and was worth third place! Awesome!

The Green Hills Trilogy