The Dink Network

I have been playing Dink Smallwood since before I learned to speak English. It took a very long time for me to beat the game.

Private Message

My possibly completely wrong guess from cursory reading of the source code is that it is because of the screen-border checks on pill_brain.

    if (spr[h].y > (playy - 15))

    {
        changedir(9,h,spr[h].base_walk);
    }         

    if (spr[h].x > (playx - 15))

    {
        changedir(1,h,spr[h].base_walk);
    }         

    if (spr[h].y < 18)
    {
        changedir(1,h,spr[h].base_walk);
    }         

    if (spr[h].x < 18) 
    {
        changedir(3,h,spr[h].base_walk);
    }      

So, a sprite near right edge it will go down-left and sprite near bottom edge it will go up-right.