pytermgame 1.2

Like pygame, but in the terminal

pytermgame

You've seen frameworks for making terminal apps (textual, pytermgraphics, asciimatics etc.), but how about a framework for games ... like pygame but in the terminal?

Supports Python 3.10 or above

Installation

Install from pip

pip install pytermgame

Or, install with the latest updates (may be unstable)

git clone https://github.com/tovicheung/pytermgame
cd pytermgame
pip install .

Features

• pygame-inspired api structure
• customizable terminal behaviour (alternate screen, cursor visibility)
• scene-switching within a game, each with its own sprites
• supports scrolling
• extensible sprite class
• collision engine with sub-tick motion prediction
• optimized rendering: game calculates the minimum number of objects to erase and re-render (it takes care of overlapping sprites too!)
• cross-platform key event reading
• includes an integrated debugger and an external profiler
• (New) basic composite UI support: ptg.ui

[!NOTE] This is not a full-fledged game engine, but more of an experiment to create terminal games

Tested on

• Windows 10 & 11
• WSL Ubuntu 22.04

Unfortunately i am too broke to afford a mac

Examples

Examples are included in examples/.

Playing instructions are included in the respective files.

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/202c4f01-b9ec-4aac-bbbc-0cfa07369a2d

https://github.com/tovicheung/pytermgame/assets/demo_breakout.mp4

Atari breakout gameplay (example 4)

Future plans

check out TODO.md