Welcome to the Pearl Diver game homepage, here because making webpages is simple and easy. Anyway, Pearl Diver is the second major programming project from the C++ class I'm in (or was in, depending on your date), the first being Tug Of War. While Tug of War was more of a Puzzle/Strategy game, this is more of an Adventure/Strategy game. Actully this incarnation of the game doesn't have much to the game play, which will be remedied in a second version now that I'm free of the boundaries set by the class requirements. Anyway, any future version will be called "Pearl Diver 2", since the "game engine" used will be somewhat different. Anyway, this is where you can learn a bit about the game and even download it to play.
How to Play
OBJECT
The object of the game is to dive to the bottom of the sea and retreive five pearls.
THREATS
There are two threats to your character in the game. First is running out of oxegen. Being a mortal, your character is unable to breathe while underwater and will drown if you remain under water for too long. Return to the surface to refill your air.
The second threat is that of the poisonous Stinger Fish which live in the sea. They will attack anything they come across with thier stingers. Your diving suit can withstand up to 5 stings and each time you are attacked you will loose 1 to your suit strength and 1 to your oxegen.
HOW TO PLAY
Guide your character to the bottom of the sea and search for pearls on the bottom. Pearls are ONLY found on the bottom of the sea. Be sure to leave enough oxegen to return to the surface.
Just a final warning. This game is soul crushingly hard. Unfortunately it's due to the required paremiters for the project. The O2 level, stings, and percentage chances of finding stingerfish and pearls were all specified as part of the assignment. Let's put if this way, I programmed the thing and I've NEVER won this game. Fear not, I'm working on a sequel (or at least new version) that will be considerably easier. If you manage to be eaten alive by Stinger Fish instead of just drowning feel free to consider yourself a winner. Also I suppose if you DO manage to beat the game by getting all five pearls drop me a line if you want to be in some sort of Pearl Diver Hall of Fame, which I'll add to this page.
View the Pearl Diver C++ Source Code.
Download Pearl_Diver for Win/DOS based systems.