A little game where you play as a rat in space and have to catch coins while avoiding meat cleavers. This is one of the first things I ever programmed and the code is horrifyingly, beautifully uncomplicated. I didn’t know about abstractions or design patterns - everything is mostly in a single file in a giant function that handles everything.

When I see the code now, I can think of many ways to make it more “clean”, but it is already perfect. It works and is simple. I wish I could free myself from the shackles of “good” programming and make simple stuff again. Obviously abstractions and design patterns have their place and are very useful - but I will think very hard about the worth of the complexity they bring in the future.

You can get the game on my github. You will need python3 installed to run it.