bracket-lib VS VTerminal

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.

Maybe bracket-lib from the amethyst authors? I‘m 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, I‘m sure you would get through the first chapters quickly.

https://github.com/amethyst/bracket-lib has a great integration with Bevy, designed for exactly this sort of thing.

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.

Bracket-Lib for Bevy Github

Bracket-Terminal/RLTK for Bevy Github Branch | Twitter | Patreon

bracket-lib 👈🏻 (using this now)

You could check out my name generation library and another library that I wrote to give Swing a terminal Look-and-Feel

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.

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.

VTerminal

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.