## Description
In this minimalist proof-of-concept, the player controls the left-right motion
of a walking stickman across a bent line. Random encounters happen in the
background as the player progresses along line segments, with combat
automatically resolving and the player’s hit point and experience point totals
adjusting automatically. Towns are located at corners, restoring players’ hit
points to their maximum, and players may find themselves backtracking when
advancing along stretches too long to complete without facing the possibility
of exhausting HP before reaching the next bend and dying (which returns the
player to the last junction, erasing their progress.)
As the player moves left and right in this fashion, a humorous text of
dialogue and plot details scrolls in the background, down as the player
advances and receding back up should the player (named “Kliche” in the text,
along with his un-implemented female companion “Tseret Nievol”) retreat.
The Linear RPG