Build Pong in Your Terminal with Go for Some Reason

• donut

  0 2 10.0 Go

  Playing with Golang (by onnos)

  I learned some basics of Go in much the same way a few years ago. An implementation of Andy Sloane's (famous?) donut in a terminal: https://github.com/onnos/donut

  And playing with funky patterns using braille characters:

• rotaterm

  0 0 10.0 Go

  https://github.com/onnos/rotaterm

  It's not great quality code but it got me started! It's nice to have some immediate output you can play with.

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• gx

  1 88 4.3 Go

  A Go->C++transpiler meant for data-oriented gameplay and application programming especially for WebAssembly. Using this mostly in the context of specific personal projects and heavily focusing the feature set on those. Used in my Raylib gamejam project: https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-5k -- also being used to develop a private longer term game project and a note-taking app. (by nikki93)

  Re: perf for hobby gamedev, I basically agree for native builds, but lately I've felt like Wasm support seems key for hobby gamedev (so you can have more people play your game / without downloading it / it works directly on mobile too without dealing with app or play store). And Go perf in Wasm unfortunately is not so good (I was hitting big GC pauses when trying to make a game with Ebiten and large images).

  I ended up writing a Go -> C++ compiler. The games I've done with it don't use the GC at all but also don't manually manage memory -- they use an ECS api which helps. https://github.com/nikki93/gx -- the README links to development workflow video and complete example game code.

• bubbletea

  13 23,738 8.8 Go

  A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

  

  Fantastic game! Have you considered using the Bubble Tea [1] library?

  I recently used Bubble Tea to write a Flappy Bird-like game [2] and it was incredibly fun. It splits your app up into a Model (state), a View function (that uses the model to return a string), and an Update function (that updates the model), like Elm. Plus the other Charm libraries are great for styling terminal output, spring physics, etc.

  [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

• flapioca

  0 58 0.0 Go

  A Flappy Bird-inspired terminal game written in Go.

• golang-experiments

  0 3 10.0 Go

  Just messing around trying to learn golang

  Love the other "this is how I learned , too" comments. I'll add mine into the mix :) note this was implemented in 2014: https://github.com/mrryanjohnston/golang-experiments/tree/ma...

  I think videogames are a great way to showcase channels in Go.

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