My UWaterloo friend was tweeting about her sibling learning Turing and needed help for it…
It’s been a while since I did Turing, about a decade but I literally did not touch the language for 10 years…and despite being a programming language, it’s really very different from anything I’ve done lately, ASP VB, C#, JavaScript, etc. It was pretty tough to look back and understand the code…

Anyways, in OAC, I did this Turing Pokemon game…I couldn’t get it to run for the last 10 years because
1. I didn’t have a turing compiler
2. My images are in a Turing image format, tm2, which is no longer supported (apparently). I was Googling this format and even in 2004, it was outdated -_-;

Anyways…for some reason, I spent the last 4~ hours making the program work. This involved making new .jpg images and learning Turing a bit again…sorta.

Anyways, here’s Turing compiler/executable and my game:

***** Turing_Pokemon_warrenshea.zip [7 MB] *****

Steps to run the program:
1. Extract the files to a directory.
2. Open Turing.exe
3. Open the file Pokemon.T

4. Run the program (F1) or press the Run button under FILE.

Use the keyboard and press 1, 2, or 3 depending on the options.

Screenshots:

Tips to win:
1. Don’t try to run from the fight. It’s a waste of a turn.
2. Use your “elemental ability” against an enemy who is weak to that element (ex. Lightning > Water)
3. In the last battle, your new ability >> any of your old abilities
4. It’s all about math and probability. You’ll win if you simply consistently attack using a normal attack unless you’re really unlucky.

Notes:
This game is pretty weak and probably below your expectations. It was developed in my second high school computer science course ever…at the time, I had only started learning about loops and conditional statements.