What is the greatest terminal game ever written? I guess rogue, adom, nethack would be popular answers; probably the entire infocom catalog? They're not really my cup of tea, the game I've enjoyed the most is probably asciiportal.
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Show HN: A Terminal Tetris Game
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#12I got this: thread 'main' panicked at 'index out of bounds: the len is 10 but the index is 18446744073709551615', src/core.rs:182:24
I thought rust was meant to prevent this stuff?
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#13But doesn't emacs come with this built in? It's practically pre-installed on most of the unix machines I've used. I've even played it at the Apple Store.
So what? Not everything needs to be done revolutionary new idea.
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#14I got this: thread 'main' panicked at 'index out of bounds: the len is 10 but the index is 18446744073709551615', src/core.rs:182:24
I thought rust was meant to prevent this stuff?
And it did, panicking instead of letting you access something out of bounds is what bounds checking is about.
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#15I have to admit that I have a soft-spot for the ncurses based bastet: a tetris clone that will give you the least useful tetrimo block.
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#16What is the greatest terminal game ever written? I guess rogue, adom, nethack would be popular answers; probably the entire infocom catalog? They're not really my cup of tea, the game I've enjoyed the most is probably asciiportal.
ascii-patrol is impressive. https://github.com/msokalski/ascii-patrol
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#18But doesn't emacs come with this built in? It's practically pre-installed on most of the unix machines I've used. I've even played it at the Apple Store.
One can never have too many Tetris options. Shame on you.
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#19I successfully used Tetris to teach a first course in programming. What I did was provide a module I called "Gridworld". This provided a simple way for the students to create an N * N grid of cells where the cell size was fixed. The only other thing that could be done with Gridworld was to fill or clear the cells. After presenting Gridworld, I then asked the students how we might make an animation of a single square moving down the screen. This was in the very first class!
So instead of talking about semi-colons, syntax, types and so on, we thought about timing, animation, and how to make the animation uniform regardless of the speed of the computer.
After that, the students were given a series of staged assignments, finally ending up with the complete game by the end of the term.
Re: Show HN: A Terminal Tetris Game
#20What is the greatest terminal game ever written? I guess rogue, adom, nethack would be popular answers; probably the entire infocom catalog? They're not really my cup of tea, the game I've enjoyed the most is probably asciiportal.
Hello Tavis. On global IF:
Most Infocom games, plus Adventure.
From IF archive (amateur games, but these are anything but amateur).
Curses.
Jigsaw.
Anchorhead.
Spider and Web.
On roguelikes:
Nethack/Slashem.
Dungeon Crawl SS.
Cataclysm DDA.
Game pack: BSD games.
4x strategy/tactics:
VMS-Empire.
Note that VMS-Empire has a Unix port since forever.
Weird strategy/sim:
Liberal Crime Squad.