It's not just nice.
This game takes a concept that others have tried (arcade game in terminal/console) and just completely blows them out of the water.
It does everyting so much better than everything that's been done before that it's a whole new class of thing.
Unfortunately, ascii-patrol is not very widely known. I discovered ascii-patrol only after spending several hours searching all corners of web ascii/console arcade games.
I also want to write a (much more modest) arcade game for terminal: I'm more of the artist and less the programmer. I've spent the past year and a half honing my chops with unicode block-25 graphics
After some initial tests it looks like i'll be able to make a simple game without ncurses - just ansi codes for refreshing screen and cursor positioning should do the trick for, at least, somewhat modern systems. I'm a little shocked by how smoothly the animation of ascii-patrol runs even with urxvt, which has some serious issues with rendering speed on the raspberry pi.
I'll do what I can to spread awareness of this ... well...
groundbreaking game.
Cheers!
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