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Guess the correct number (from binary to decimal) before time runs out!

Or lose a life trying.

Includes 16-bit mode as well, when you feel a little bit insane.

Includes multiple 4-bit modes, to train individual nibbles.

Colorblind friendly

I discovered usability issues early on while testing on a monochromatic terminal emulator, and took this as a challenge to make it work well regardless of color perception.

Can you crack the high score?

The longer your streak, the more points you get, but the faster the timer runs out!

High scores are tracked for each game-mode separately, and saved in a text file relative to the executable.

Play

Download the release for your platform, see Releases.
There is one file for linux and one for windows (.exe).

Linux

• download the file binbreak-linux
• open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you downloaded it, e.g. cd ~/Downloads
• make it executable: chmod +x binbreak-linux
• run the game: ./binbreak-linux

Controls

• use the arrow or vim keys for navigation
• press Enter to confirm choices
• press Esc or Q to exit a game mode or the game. CTRL+C also works to exit the game.

Recommended terminals

The game should run fine in any terminal. If you want retro CRT effects, here are some recommendations:

• Windows: Windows Terminal (enable experimental "retro mode")
• Linux: Rio (with CRT shader), Cool Retro Term

Build/Run from source

You may be inclined to not run binaries from the internet, and want to build from source instead.

• download the source code
• make sure you have Rust and Cargo installed, see rustup.rs
• open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the source code, e.g. cd ~/Downloads/binbreak
• build the project: cargo build --release

Run

cargo run --release

Test

cargo test

License

MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)