# The games/ski port

## ski-6.7p2 – skiing simulation game

## Description

    Imagine you are skiing down an infinite slope, facing such hazards as
    trees, ice, bare ground, and the man-eating Yeti!  Unfortunately, you
    have put your jet-powered skis on backwards, so you can't see ahead
    where you are going; only behind where you have been.  However, you can
    turn to either side, jump or hop through the air, teleport through
    hyperspace, launch nuclear ICBMs, and cast spells to call the Fire
    Demon.  And since the hazards occur in patches, you can skillfully
    outmaneuver them.  A fun and very silly game that proves you don't need
    fancy graphical user interfaces to have a good time.

    This is a Python reimplementation of a C game from 1990, with on-line
    help added.  The original was by Mark Stevans, this implementation is
    released under open-source terms by Eric S. Raymond.

    The internals of this game are actually kind of interesting.  The
    terrain generator is a simple cellular automaton that generates crude 2D
    fractals.

WWW: http://catb.org/~esr/ski/

Categories:
  games lang/python

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff
- lang/python/2.7

## Run dependencies

- lang/python/2.7