This is not a game…yet. It’s a book.
I posted earlier about LaTeX, a mathematical/science/computer science document typsetting system. This serves as an example of what can be done with LaTeX—that is the complete source of the (greatly redacted) sample.
The .pdf file created by LaTeX is here: https://github.com/tdvance/RatRaceGameSample/blob/master/Book.pdf (sample is 13 megabytes)
At the rate I’m writing, I might be ready to submit the full book for publication (somewhere) in about a year: I’ve written 165 pages and I estimate 300-600 pages when it is finished, and I’ve been writing 30-60 pages a month. So…about a year.
The idea is a how-to manual for building a really polished Rat Race game, one much better than the one I put here:
source: https://github.com/tdvance/Maze-Chase
html5 web game: https://tdvance.itch.io/rat-race
In addition to building Rat Race specifically, it is a template for building games, period. I am writing it sort-of like a textbook, with exercises (most with solutions or partial solutions shortly after) and some challenge problems for going beyond the scope of the book.
Start of the source for the faster-stronger-better version of the game: https://github.com/Todd-D-Vance/Rat-Race
but despite being faster, stronger, and better, I don’t expect it to cost six million dollars!
(if no paper-book publisher wants to publish the book, I’ll look into one of those donation-ware e-book sites–it will eventually get out there, one way or another!)