pytermgame

You've seen frameworks for making terminal apps (textual, pytermgraphics, asciimatics etc.), but how about a framework for games ... like pygame but in the terminal?

Installation

pip install pytermgame

Features

• pygame-inspired structure
• customizable terminal behaviour (alternate screen, cursor visibility)
• optimized rendering: game figures out which sprites requires erase and re-render (it takes care of overlapping sprites too!)
• provides both tick-based and thread-based event systems
• cross-platform support for reading and identifying keys

Tested on

• Windows 10
• Ubuntu (WSL) 22.04 Unfortunately i am too broke to afford a mac

Examples

Examples are included in the repo root:

• jet_and_ball.py
• cookie_clicker.py

Instructions are in the file of the example (docstrings)

Future plans

• cross-platform support for more keys
• extended screen (scrolling, multiple scenes, etc.)
• better interface to ANSI colors
• grayscale option
• cross-platform mouse support
• more examples