Ncurses 3D game

[@Crux161]

This is ridiculously good - I just can’t even imagine how this is done (just tuned in to see the gameplay while searching for an ncurses game engine for simple stuff) - this is so far beyond what I thought was even possible. I mean - 🤯

[@kw5992]

Hi Bryce. This is really awesome. Can't wait to see the source. I'm a C++ programmer (Qt) myself and was looking for a retro-ish engine eerily similar to what you have here to create a somewhat different game. Or rather, similar camera control, but an RPG-ish style game that involves exploring. Regardless, I think you should keep going. Are you in school for programming, or is this an aspiration of yours to become a programmer? Just curious :)

[@KayOScode]

Thanks! My I am making a tutorial series on this engine and it will be done in C++ so you should be fine if you want to follow. Currently I am a computer science student but I have just always had a passion for programming. To me it is a creative outlet and a form of self expression.

[@ksawery6568]

This is absolutely insane

[@ilokikoval]

Your editor color palette makes my eyes hurt lol. Anyway, this is very cool! You need to do more stuff with this renderer!

[@The-Dev-Ninja]

You: 3D ASCII ONLY PROGRAMMING GAME WITHOUT A GAME ENGINE me: Hello World (ah yes i have a ERROR) 😁LOL

[@cartersirois1555]

Bro this is insane. Congrats.

[@computersstuff9672]

This is really cool, I can't wait to see more! You definitely deserve more views!

[@KayOScode]

computers stuff thanks. I am planning on getting started sometime in the near future. I just realized that I am terrible at recording these live so I am working on a new format

[@computersstuff9672]

Ooo, take your time, no need to pressure yourself but that sounds like a good approach

[@emilioguevara9918]

I can’t even begin to describe how incredible this is. I wish I had ur skills. One day I’m going to try to make my own engine like this because this is so sick.

[@loganmahoney2284]

Nice project man thanks for sharing

[@DavidCarrizoGuitarra]

Awesome!!!

[@DboyRough]

You're an artist, friend! Great work!

[@shieldprose10]

this is so great. i have just recently started developing, in fact i couldnt say ive finished one game yet lol. i was looking for using ncurses to port to pdcurses and target DOS x.x im still working out the game (since i actually decided this project earlier this night) but im confident i will be using something like this

[@KayOScode]

Thanks! Are you doing 3D graphics? If so, I would recommend not using ncurses. My game might look good for what it is, but ncurses has it's limitations. Resolution, colors, software rendering, input, other things like that. I have a new demo coming soon. I have been working on an engine that can run games in an actual window and I think it's much better. It also uses the graphics card so many of the previous limitations are gone. If you are just starting with a simple 2D game, I still would not invest too much into ncurses, but it is a nice place to start. Good luck on your future projects.

[@shieldprose10]

@@KayOScode hmmmmm... anyways I have been developing using unity game engine for about a month. my current main game will have an interesting concept of playing games inside of games. so this ncurses project will run inside of the game

[@abdulalhazred5924]

The power of ncurses compels you!

[@mmatteii]

That's awesome man, thanks for sharing.

[@Muck-qy2oo]

1:20 Game start. :)

[@GTA68345]

Fascinating. I hope you find some time to make videos besides your studies.

[@emilioguevara9918]

Bro and you did this in C I’m done.

[@DragonRazor9283]

insane!!

[@alerey4363]

keyboard input? if so, every keystroke you press is a fixed distance the object moves right? I mean, it's not some quirky delay we see in the movement because of low framerates but instead because there's no way of detecting keydown and keyup events from keyboard while in terminal text mode right?

[@KayOScode]

Correct. It ran at over 1000 fps on my computer. I could have used other libraries, but I liked this input scheme. NCurses supplies only one input method and that's getch(). It just returns when a key has been pressed on the keyboard. I could not check to see when that key had been released so there was no good way to determine how long the key had been pressed.

[@geoffroy494]

Wow... Impressive !

[@hamza-trabelsi]

I have a question please , Why there are gaps between pixels in your game, since it renders to any pixel it should give results like OpenGL right ?

[@KayOScode]

Its rendering in ncurses, so the output is into a terminal. The bmp output can be used in the same way as opengl, but only if its being output to a window rather than to terminal text. This could certainly be used as a full software renderer if you were to add gpu acceleration

[@hamza-trabelsi]

@@KayOScode is there any possibility in ncurses , to get a window handle and pass the rendering to it instead of a terminal ?

[@KayOScode]

Definitely, but if I were doing it, id just stop using ncurses. The win32 api has a function called bitblt which allows you to write raw pixel data to the screen. Its very quick and easy to modify this code to output colors instead of letters and simply use bitblt to draw the framebuffer to the window to render

[@alexbrau3311]

THE SAME THING A WANTED TO SAY. F*****G GREAT!

[@dariusduesentrieb]

Is it an adapter to OpenGL or all done manually. If done manually only on the CPU or also GPU accelerated?

[@KayOScode]

The entire thing is software rendered and its done on the CPU. My framebuffer system is done as an array of pixels in the same format you would expect from a bitmap image. Framebuffers also include depth buffers to ensure pixels are written in the correct order. I have 2 framebuffers. One being rendered in a background thread, and the other being presented to the user. It is quite a bit slower to present the framebuffer than it was to render to it. I could have done it on the GPU, but I did it in C, and I did not want to use any external libraries. I had to throttle a lot of the threads to keep my CPU from overheating.

[@NatalieBeck-b4p]

Daugherty Green

[@electronicwoe]

Is the binary or source for this published anywhere? I;d like to play it/mess with it.

[@tekashi5962]

Teach us more

[@StickySli]

I swear that I have played a similar game in my childhood around 2003. Anyone knows any similar game where the monkey head is a space ship? The goal was to reach the end too and to avoid obstacles.

[@gauravbrahmankar6871]

skyroad

[@john_swanson]

source code? realy nice btw

[@juuamjskn2420]

source code bro, this is amazing

[@davidbell9909]

source pls, mate

[@rodrigotorres1053]

Windows bin please.

[@monarquistadecentro-direit5937]

source code