libtcod VS bracket-lib

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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.

libtcod has always been a favorite of mine. Does a lot of things to zero fanfare outside the indie roguelike scene.

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.

FoV is a port from C -> Java of the algorithm found here

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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/

Browsing the repo, looks like it has a full C only API, https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod/blob/master/src/libtcod/libtcod.h

libtcod support for terminals is in progress at least for ANSI true colour, and I have a minimal compatibility layer for UNIX only.

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.

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