VTerminal
A new Look-and-Feel (LaF) for Java, which allows for a grid-based display of Unicode characters with custom fore/background colors, font sizes, and pseudo-shaders. Originally designed for developing Roguelike/lite games. (by Valkryst)
bracket-lib
The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust. (by thebracket)
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| VTerminal | bracket-lib | |
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| 5 | 27 | |
| 75 | 1,447 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 7.5 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 2 months ago | |
| Java | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
VTerminal
Posts with mentions or reviews of VTerminal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-18.
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Any suggestions for good open source Java codebases to study(With below criteria)?
You could check out my name generation library and another library that I wrote to give Swing a terminal Look-and-Feel
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Learning - Guidance on creating my own Import Library.
This is one of my projects which is set up with JitPack and Maven. I can include it in any other project by adding it as a dependency to that project's Maven pom.xml file.
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Your cool open source libraries
VTerminal - A new Swing LaF which allows for a grid-based display of Unicode characters with custom fore/background colors, font sizes, and pseudo-shaders.
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Sharing Saturday #352
VTerminal
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ASCII roguelike project
The library is VTerminal. The master branch contains all of the older AWT-based code and the 2020.11 branch contains all of the newer Swing-based code. Although it's mostly done and working, I'm holding off pushing the full rewrite in 2020.11 to master until I can get more documentation written for it.
bracket-lib
Posts with mentions or reviews of bracket-lib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
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Does anyone care about CLI/TUI games?
I think having to use a terminal is the scary part for many people. rltk/bracket-lib can be used to get a similar look and feel if that's what's important, but it is geared toward roguelikes.
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Minimal 2D library for games? I'm struggling a bit to settle on one to learn.
Maybe bracket-lib from the amethyst authors? Iām currently working through that book and find the library quite intuitive and simple to use. It started out as a toolkit for rouge-like games but has been getting more general. On that note, I recommend the hands-on-rust book which teaches rust concepts while building games with bracket-lib. As you have read the book, Iām sure you would get through the first chapters quickly.
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Bevy ECS or custom implementation?
https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib has a great integration with Bevy, designed for exactly this sort of thing.
- Turn-based game - architecture feedback/opinons
- libtcod use 8x8 font but scaled up to 16x16?
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How difficult could it be to make a console program that looks like this and has a game loop running on a separate thread? Any suggestions or crate recommendations are welcome!
I've been doing some experiments with terminal based games and landed on https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib It's not exactly terminal based in the sense that it actually runs on OpenGL by default. But that's a plus imho because dealing with the bits of the terminal window that can change outside of your control (like fonts, window resize, etc) is a giant pita. It does let you swap the backend to run on crossterm if that's what you really want to do but if what you're after is the aesthetic like I am having bracket_lib handling all that makes life so much better.
- Rendering TUI To Web
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Sharing Saturday #420
Bracket-Lib for Bevy Github
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Sharing Saturday #418
Bracket-Terminal/RLTK for Bevy Github Branch | Twitter | Patreon
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Sharing Saturday #416
bracket-lib šš» (using this now)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing VTerminal and bracket-lib you can also consider the following projects:
Minestom - 1.20.4 Lightweight Minecraft server
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
Litiengine - LITIENGINE š¹ The pure 2D java game engine.
Amethyst - Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust
milkman - An Extensible Request/Response Workbench
libtcod - A collection of tools and algorithms for developing traditional roguelikes. Such as field-of-view, pathfinding, and a tile-based terminal emulator.
bowler-script-kernel - The CLI and API layer for the Bowler ScriptingEngine and all its dependant libraries.
bevy_webgl2 - WebGL2 renderer plugin for Bevy game engine
ksuid - K-Sortable Globally Unique IDs for Java
python-tcod - A high-performance Python port of libtcod. Includes the libtcodpy module for backwards compatibility with older projects.
Axes-Armour-Ale - A fantasy, ASCII dungeon crawler for Windows, Linux & OSX
Rust-HTML-roguelike - Rust WASM + HTML roguelike
VTerminal vs Minestom
bracket-lib vs bevy
VTerminal vs Litiengine
bracket-lib vs Amethyst
VTerminal vs milkman
bracket-lib vs libtcod
VTerminal vs bowler-script-kernel
bracket-lib vs bevy_webgl2
VTerminal vs ksuid
bracket-lib vs python-tcod
VTerminal vs Axes-Armour-Ale
bracket-lib vs Rust-HTML-roguelike