Hi, I'm playing around with maze solving in Java. At first, I thought of using recursion: base state: if at destination, quit. if nothing on left, turn left, recur. if noting on right, turn right, ...

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I have gotten on a Tower Defense game kick, and thought it might be fun to write my own. Well, the level design, "tower" design, etc. would be fun but not the maze traversal algorithm (I don't enjoy ...

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