Moonlight Drift — terminal version

The third version of the game, alongside web/ (browser) and wii/. Runs on the texastoast engine's terminal backend.

pip install magmacrunch-moonlight-drift
moonlight-drift

Hold SPACE or ↑ to climb, release to fall, thread the columns. It is also a cabinet in the magmacrunch arcade, and plays identically either way.

What is here


`drift/config.py`	the browser's 1280×720 world, and every measurement in it
`drift/projection.py`	that world onto character cells
`drift/player.py`	gravity, thrust, and the two lethal edges
`drift/obstacles.py`	the columns, their tapered silhouettes and collision
`drift/characters.py`	24 pilots — physics, hitboxes, a glyph and a colour
`drift/stars.py`	the starfield, twinkling on a four-phase cycle
`drift/scenes.py`	the title screen and the run

None of it imports the engine. tests/test_physics.py runs with nothing but pytest on the machine, which is what proves that claim.

The two things a terminal changes

A character cell is about twice as tall as it is wide. The Wii port has the same problem from the other direction — non-square framebuffer pixels — and solves it in wii/source/projection.c by deriving a pixel-aspect ratio and fitting the world's height to the safe area. Here that ratio is a constant 0.5, and the same fit applies: the gap and the player keep exactly the share of the screen they have in the browser, and the width is cropped. A short wide terminal sees less of the 1280 than a tall one, exactly as a 4:3 television sees less than a 16:9 one.

The player is about two cells wide and one tall. So a character cannot carry its art — on the web each is canvas primitives with hue cycling, on the Wii a baked PNG, and draw_image is a no-op in the terminal backend. What survives is a glyph, an accent colour from its web palette, and its physics — which is the part you actually feel.

Running the tests

pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest -q

The simulation suite needs no engine at all:

pip install pytest
python -m pytest tests/test_physics.py -q

Licence

PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 — see LICENSE and NOTICE.

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