Games for Redox

Ticki · March 12, 2016, 7:11am

Now that libterm works on Redox, you can make terminal games! This should be low-hanging fruit for new contributors.

Some ideas:

Snake
Draughts
Conway’s game of life
Tetris
Tic-tac-toe
Go

jackpot51 · March 12, 2016, 1:33pm

Also, GUI games can use orbclient

Ticki · March 12, 2016, 3:39pm

Yeah!

We also got SDL, so there’s that too.

Ticki · March 12, 2016, 3:56pm

Could you create a repository for games?

jackpot51 · March 12, 2016, 5:55pm

You have permissions to create repos now

Ticki · March 16, 2016, 8:04am

For anyone wondering how to get started, check out this minesweeper implementation (screenshot).

P.S. libterm is now termion.

mmstick · March 17, 2016, 4:56am

A boggle-like game might be nice as well. I have written a simple CLI variant of Boggle in Rust before.

Ticki · March 17, 2016, 7:25pm

Sounds cool! Could you port it to Redox?

Ticki · March 17, 2016, 7:29pm

For the record, nkr is working on a snake implementation. I have almost completed a Pokemon-style ice sliding puzzle.

mmstick · March 18, 2016, 8:52am

In it’s current state, probably not. I might look into re-creating a better version of it at some point in the future. The biggest hurdle for me is that I need to find some way to check if a word that was input by the user is an actual recognized word, and not just gibberish. Then, networking support would be ideal.

Ticki · March 21, 2016, 12:03pm

Hah. Lol. This certainly beats Linux’s ANSI support, ;P. Anyways, could you report this in the Github repository, since this is definitely a regression. Yesterday, raw mode worked fine.

n-liam · March 29, 2016, 2:29am

That’s a 404 on the minesweeper just fyi

Ticki · March 29, 2016, 6:11am

github.com

redox-os/games/blob/master/src/minesweeper/main.rs

//! This crate is a simple implementation of minesweeper. It is carefully documented to encourage
//! newbies to add new games to the repository.

extern crate termion;
extern crate extra;

use termion::{clear, cursor, style};
use termion::raw::IntoRawMode;
use termion::input::TermRead;
use termion::event::Key;

use std::env;
use std::io::{self, Read, Write};
use std::process;

use extra::rand::Randomizer;

/// A cell in the grid.
#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Debug, Hash)]
struct Cell {

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Sehny · April 5, 2016, 7:23pm

Hi!

although I don’t have much experience with Rust I was thinking of implementing simple Sudoku game, but it seems that someone had the same (or similar) idea in “games-for-redox” repository. Is someone working on it? In that case I would probably try to implement something else.

Ticki · April 7, 2016, 7:54am

It was k0pernicus, but I am unsure whether he is working on that one or tetris.

DLC · July 4, 2016, 7:31pm

I would suggest looking for pre-made lists such as http://wordlist.aspell.net/12dicts/. You could also make the dictionary or dictionaries a configuration setting.

deavmi · August 3, 2016, 5:05pm

Call of Duty Please. Lol. Just kidding.

Ticki · August 6, 2016, 7:30pm

brb making a text clone for ya

deavmi · August 6, 2016, 8:21pm

lol. for call of duty in the terminal?