MiceAmaze 4.2

MiceAmaze is a free video game that features a maze with mice and snakes. The goal is to bring the most mice to your house by placing arrows on the maze floor. But beware the snakes that want to eat them!

Features:

Mouse and keyboard controls to play against a friend
Artificial intelligence to play against computer
Possibility to create your own mazes using a very simple text format
Free (without any adware or limitation)

Windows

Download MiceAmaze for Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10)
If your browser is Google Chrome, you need to tell it to keep the file even if it tells you it might be dangerous (the reason for this warning is that MiceAmaze is not a frequently downloaded program so it is not well-known from Chrome).
If you are using Windows 8 or 10, when you double-click on "Install MiceAmaze", Windows will tell you that "Windows protected your computed". You need to click on "More info" and then "Run anyway".

Linux

If you are using a Debian-based distribution (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.) you can directly install the "miceamaze" package that is available in your distribution.

Download MiceAmaze source code for Linux
With the source code version, you need to know how to compile a program.
Dependencies: GCC C++, GNU Make, OpenGL, SDL, SDL_mixer, SOIL, QuesoGLC, DejaVu font, rsvg

New features

In version 4.0 (November 2014):

New special mouse: the "drill mouse" destroys walls
Only houses from selected players are present in the maze
Better FPS setting: your computer heats less while playing the game

In version 3.0 (December 2013):

Sick mice
New music
A.I. now sends snakes to other's houses

In version 2.0:

Music
Better mice images
Better FPS setting (your computer heats less)
Fix OpenGL crash in "How to play" screen on some video cards

How to play?

Mice will appear continuously. Your goal is to bring more mice to your house than other players before the time is over.

Arrows: If you play using your mouse, you have 2 ways to place arrows, either use left-click/right-click/wheel-up/wheel-down, or click and maintain pressed then go to one direction and release. If you play using the keyboard, use the arrows to move the cursor and I,J,K,L to place arrows. In any case, you cannot place more than 3 arrows.

Snakes will eat mice they meet until they get sick of eating too much and die. If a snake reaches your house, you loose 10 points.

The golden mouse will trigger a special event.

Want to make your own maze?

You have a good idea to make a maze? It is very simple to make one, simply go in the mazes directory and create a text file with a similar syntax as the others (the maze format is kind of an ASCII art representation of the maze, click here to see an example). You can send me (almacha AT almacha.org) your maze and I will include it in the next release, with its title and your name shown under it (by sending it, you agree to release it to the public domain).

For programmers

MiceAmaze is open source, licensed under the BSD 2-clause license.

The full C++ source code for building the Windows and Linux versions is available:

Repository on GitHub

If you want to report a bug or make a suggestion, you can do it here.