- 16 Feb 2024
Way back in 2022 I started reading about using terminal escape codes to do away with depending on NCurses for all the terminal drawing and keyboard handling for terminal applications. If I recall correctly, my original motivation was because I wanted to use fancy unicode characters with the Goblin Caves project, and NCurses was not playing nicely.
Of course, I couldn’t just dive right into swapping over the entirety of Goblin Caves to using terminal codes directly without testing them on something - and the first thing I thought of was why not make a simulation of a deck of cards? I messed around, designed a way overbuilt deck of cards, and even started working on implementing a Cribbage game (ambitious!). I ran into a weird problem with Cribbage, couldn’t figure it out, and shelved the project. Some screenshots of the original project:
Well, when I recently started working on Goblin Caves again I remembered my efforts to write some simple drawing and event handling code, brought that code over to the Goblin Caves project, buffed it up, and it worked great.
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