Ncurses Arcade

A collection of command line games, built with ncurses.

Install

• Command Line
  • Requires ncurses

  git clone https://github.com/benbusby/ncurses-arcade.git
  cd ncurses-arcade
  make
  ./ncurses-arcade
  

• Web (tiny-moon-runner only)

  git clone https://github.com/benbusby/ncurses-arcade.git
  cd ncurses-arcade
  git checkout web
  open index.html
  

Games

Tiny Moon Runner

A small ASCII endless runner, originally created for the Apollo 11 GC Game Jam. Also available as an iframe-able browser game in the web branch.

The theme of the game jam was to create a simple game that took up less than 32 kilobytes of memory (the capacity of the Apollo 11 guidance computer).

The visuals in the game are accomplished using a 2D matrix of characters that are updated on a regular interval to achieve a constant "framerate", with the characters moved between rows and colums of the matrix to simulate motion:

Also available via browser on Itch.io