libtcod
A collection of tools and algorithms for developing traditional roguelikes. Such as field-of-view, pathfinding, and a tile-based terminal emulator. (by libtcod)
BrogueCE
Brogue: Community Edition - a community-lead fork of the much-loved minimalist roguelike game (by tmewett)
| libtcod | BrogueCE | |
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| 23 | 150 | |
| 912 | 890 | |
| 1.5% | - | |
| 7.8 | 8.3 | |
| 3 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
libtcod
Posts with mentions or reviews of libtcod.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.
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Sharing Saturday #459
libtcod | GitHub | Issues | Forum | Changelog | Documentation | Template
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Game screen: write terminal emulator or use libtcod?
Libtcod itself uses SDL2. It maps tile glyphs to a texture atlas and maps Unicode codepoints to tile positions. Then it has another data structure called a console which has the background color, foreground color, and codepoint for each tile on that console. It then uses SDL_RenderGeometry to quickly render the background and colored glyphs to an SDL texture, skipping unchanged tiles as an optimization, then renders that texture to the window. The C99 source is here: renderer_sdl2.h renderer_sdl2.c, a C++ version would surely look better.
- Sharing Saturday #440
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what minor tech projects do you absolutely adore?
libtcod has always been a favorite of mine. Does a lot of things to zero fanfare outside the indie roguelike scene.
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Sharing Saturday #427
I've ended up recovering the old 1.3.2 to 1.5.0 builds of libtcod. You can find them on the GitHub releases page. Most of, maybe all of the other places which had these builds are down, but thankfully Jice still had copies of these builds.
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RoguelikeDev Does The Complete Roguelike Tutorial - Week 3
FoV is a port from C -> Java of the algorithm found here
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Sharing Saturday #413
libtcod | GitHub | Issues | Forum | Changelog | Documentation | Template
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SRiC ("Simple" Roguelike in C) has stairs now, and multiple floors!
Hey man, I don't wanna piss in your cherrios if you're intentionally doing it all the hard way, but you know about tcod right? https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod/
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libtcod roguelike C tutorial?
Browsing the repo, looks like it has a full C only API, https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod/blob/master/src/libtcod/libtcod.h
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The 7DRL Challenge 2022 is announced! Create a complete roguelike game in 7 days.
libtcod support for terminals is in progress at least for ANSI true colour, and I have a minimal compatibility layer for UNIX only.
BrogueCE
Posts with mentions or reviews of BrogueCE.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
- any suggestions for a beginner roguelike? something that's not infuriating
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anyone can recommend me a cheap roguelike-roguelite
For a long time, most traditional roguelikes were free (although there seem to be more on steam lately). I think Brogue is a good place to start; it isn't too complicated, it has some nice quality of life stuff, cooperates with a mouse, and its pretty for its genre.
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What kind of builds are currently possible
I only play community edition, and my ascensions have been lightning, conjuration, teleport and some reaping combinations. My mastery was teleport with invis/reaping support. Multiplicity weapons are good (spear, rapier) but i tend to get ambitious and play hard for a mastery and screw it up.
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Best roguelike to start with?
Your best option is Brogue (community edition), in my opinion.
- Best roguelike on steam for a beginner?
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Looking for non-action roguelike/lite (i.e. colony sims, deckbuilder, strategy, etc.)
Brogue
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Free games that can be replayed/played for a while
Brogue is another good option if you're down with rogue-likes, can basically run on anything (& has an Android version).
- Does this game still exist?
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NetHack 3.6.7
Adding Brogue [1] to the list. Neat and very well balanced.
[1] https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
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Working on my first procedural-level generator.
Broge, Angband, C:DDA, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, are some options.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing libtcod and BrogueCE you can also consider the following projects:
python-tcod - A high-performance Python port of libtcod. Includes the libtcodpy module for backwards compatibility with older projects.
brogue - Brogue is a roguelike game created by Pender. The "vanilla" branch of this repository is just vanilla brogue, but the other branches feature some changes.
SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer
NetHack - Official NetHack Git Repository
bracket-lib - The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.
brogue-android-port - Brogue Android Port
notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
Cataclysm-DDA - Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
C++ Format - A modern formatting library
crawl - Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
glsp - The GameLisp scripting language
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