The Quantum Tunnels

A dungeon crawler designed for a quantum computer as a series of 17000 quantum gates.

But don't worry, you can play along at home using a simulator!

Features

• 16 different possible encounters (some friendly, some not)
• 7 different items with unique effects
• multiple endings: some good, some bad, one true
• rock/paper/scissors style combat system (but predictable if you take notes)
• ASCII art, can be played in just a terminal
• quantum puns and weird characters

How It Works

• the game is represented by a 22-qubit quantum state
• each turn you can change the first 3 qubits to choose your action (handled by "run.py")
• the state is then put through the quantum circuit (given by "game.qasm") to produce the next state
• each possible measured state has a corresponding ASCII output (stored in "outputs.json")

Dependencies

Requires Python and Qiskit,

Qiskit can be installed easily using pip:

pip3 install qiskit

Usage

Download the latest release here, or alternatively clone this repository.

Then run "run.py" as you would a normal Python script, e.g. on Linux:

python3 run.py

Achievements

You'll have to keep track of these yourself. Ranked in order of difficulty.

Bonus points if you speedrun getting all of these.

• [EASY] die by eating too much
• [EASY] die by tunnelling too far
• [EASY] die by swapping health with a corridor
• [EASY] die by breaking the game
• [EASY] die by ignoring the bartender's warnings
• [MEDIUM] find every different friendly event (over multiple runs)
• [MEDIUM] complete a run having full health at the end
• [MEDIUM] complete a run having no item at the end
• [MEDIUM] loop back to the start
• [MEDIUM] defeat every different enemy (over multiple runs)
• [HARD] complete a run without ever taking damage
• [HARD] defeat every different enemy (in a single run)
• [HARD] return the bartender's missing chain
• [HARD] reach the true end
• [HARD] complete a run with each item (over multiple runs)

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