Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Command Line as a Gaming Platform: ANSI Graphics and Midi Music

Introduction


Last September (2017) I got the bright idea that it would be fun to make a game for the command line. I wanted it to be graphical, but only using basic text characters (charmap is my good friend).  I messed around with it a bit in .NET and posted some experimental code to GitHub, and got as far as generating box drawings based on text files: