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Day 13: Care Package
As you ponder the solitude of space and the ever-increasing three-hour roundtrip for messages between you and Earth, you notice that the Space Mail Indicator Light is blinking. To help keep you sane, the Elves have sent you a care package.
It’s a new game for the ship’s arcade cabinet! Unfortunately, the arcade is all the way on the other end of the ship. Surely, it won’t be hard to build your own - the care package even comes with schematics.
The arcade cabinet runs Intcode software like the game the Elves sent (your puzzle input). It
has a primitive screen capable of drawing square tiles on a grid. The software draws tiles
to the screen with output instructions: every three output instructions specify the x position
(distance from the left), y position (distance from the top), and tile id. The tile id is
interpreted as follows:
0is an empty tile. No game object appears in this tile.1is a wall tile. Walls are indestructible barriers.2is a block tile. Blocks can be broken by the ball.3is a horizontal paddle tile. The paddle is indestructible.4is a ball tile. The ball moves diagonally and bounces off objects.
For example, a sequence of output values like 1,2,3,6,5,4 would draw a horizontal paddle
tile (1 tile from the left and 2 tiles from the top) and a ball tile (6 tiles from the
left and 5 tiles from the top).
Start the game. How many block tiles are on the screen when the game exits?