A new text-mode "Psuedo-3D Engine" written in BASH
Imagine an old-school dungeon crawler, first person game. In ASCII art. Running in your terminal. It's a thing of beauty.
A developer named Diego Jurado has created a text-mode “Pseudo-3D Engine” entirely in BASH. Appropriately named “pseudo3dbash”. And, for a “0.1” release, it looks pretty darn great!
From the projects GitHub page:
“I love the old first-person grid-based pseudo 3d games (known as dungeon crawlers): Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Bloodwich, Hired Guns... I decided as a challenge to create an ASCII graphics engine in BASH language to improve my programming level. Run on any Linux terminal.”
Not gonna lie, the idea of having a Dungeon Master / Eye of the Beholder type game that could run entirely in a BASH shell? Right there in my terminal?
And… wait. He’s doing this 100% in BASH?! That just fully hit me. Not C with ncurses. Not Python. BASH. That’s hardcore.
Holy heavens. That sounds awesome. Check out this video, from the developer, showing what his newly created engine is capable of.
Way to go, Diego Jurado!
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