bracket-lib VS roguelike

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

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bracket-lib 👈🏻 (using this now)

Latest release

Oathbreaker (GitHub, initial writeup)

Try out the latest release! Actually, don't bother.

But there is... only it's not in-game, it's in the online docs. I guess I'll have to find a way to put it in-game if I want to keep some hope of folks understanding it.

I ditched the idea of completing the in-game tutorial for this release, instead opting to have a walkthrough in the docs. See it here (It's not... quite done yet though. I still need to upload those GIFs and such.)

Oathbreaker (GitHub, initial writeup)

Try out the latest release!

For anyone else who wants to use it: the code is here, but note that there is a lot of cleanup for me to do before I can make it a standalone library as zig-sentry. I hope to complete it slowly over the course of the next few weeks, but no promises.

Try out the latest release! Or use the Replit (Use fullscreen and press Ctrl+L since the starting window size is too small.)

Replit. Note that you'll need to enable fullscreen and hit Ctrl+L as the starting console window is too small. Keybindings are listed here.