https://github.com/serin-delaunay/corpsestacker
@ is you. You should try to stay alive.
z is a zombie. It's not actively trying to kill you, but if it bumps into you it will.
0123456789 are floor heights. Every time you kill a zombie, it becomes part of the pile of corpses on that tile.
Make a stack of 10 corpses.
I only allotted one character to represent each tile's floor height.
You (and zombies) can only climb up 1 level or descend 3 levels in a single move. The same restrictions apply to attacking.
It's a roguelike. Expect death.
No. You'll starve up there. Zombie meat is bad for you.
They don't move to tiles at an illegal height. They don't move to tiles containing another zombie. They can move onto the tile you're standing in, and that kills you. They look at all four directions, eliminate impossible moves, and randomly choose one from what remains. If there are no legal moves, it skips its turn.
As the maximum height increases from 0 to 9,
the expected number E of zombies per turn increases from 0.5 to 1.4.
Each turn either floor(E) or ceiling(E) zombies may spawn.
Each new zombie is placed on a random empty tile on the map border.
If there are no empty border tiles, the new zombie is not placed.
This game can be won.