A simple game where a ghost chases drinks some are spirits and some are pints around a grid.
The game is written using the Initial Programming Language, a programming language aimed at beginners.
The download on this page includes a version of the Initial Programming Language so you can change the game program, but you can not save the changes.
This is a Microsoft Windows only game.
- Download the Initial Programming Language installation (2MB).
- Run the installation.
- Download the Game (0.2MB).
- Unzip the game into a folder of your choice.
- Double click on the file Ghost1.ipl. You may need to select IPL as the program associated with this extension
- Click on the green circle with the word GO in the Initial Programming Language.
- The Initial Programming Language uses some Microsoft components that not everybody will have so you might need to download and install http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=29
- Each time a drink passes through a beer pump one destroyed drink is reinstated.
- The ghost can not pass through a beer pump but drinks can.
- To edit the game code <Tab> edits the current line and <Enter> adds a new command.
- The version of the Initial Programming Language supplied here does not allow the saving of programs.