GoConsoleBT

This is a terminal game inspired by the battle city. Game use text and ASCII control symbols as graphics. GoConsoleBT is a game engine and game prototype written fully on GO

Platform

Currently tested on Windows 10 and Debian 10. Use any modern terminal to start (cmd.exe not a case) on windows you may run on Windows Terminal

Installation

Install and update this app with go get -u github.com/alh1m1k/goTerminalBt/blob/main/ then install all requirements, on linux platform also need install libasound2-dev apt install libasound2-dev. Run from app directory go build . to build app, or go run . to build and run (go lang must be installed)

Usage

First of all, build game for platform you want. Fastest way is (linux container build):

 docker run --rm -it -v  <project-dir>:/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp golang bash

in container shell

 apt update && apt install libasound2-dev

then

 go build .

or you can run game inside container

 go run .

then run terminal to start game, use --help to see all available opt.

• --scenario run custom scenario (for now only one game scenario available: stage-1 app --scenario stage-1 )
  or use:
  --tankCnt --wallCnt to run buildin random scenario with specified enemy and obstacle count app --wallCnt 250 --tankCnt 30 (by default total wallCnt+tankCnt must be less then 300-350)
• --withColor enable opt. color mode
• --withSound enable opt. sound support (sound will play on machine where game actually run)
• --simplifyAl disabling behavioral ai and switching to random (behavior ai is kinda buggy for now)

After startup, game will save config and restart, then you see the screen configurator zoom out until you can see the border. Game border controlled by config, you may increase it, but I don't recommend reducing it. Then Press Enter and game will start.

Controls

By Default player-1 use arrow keys and space to fire, player-2 use wsad and backspace to fire

Sound

This repository do not contain any sound's. If you need them, look ./sounds/readme.txt

Uses and thanks

Thanks to the authors of libraries

Author	Hub	Uses
tanema	https://github.com/tanema/ump	collision engine
buger	https://github.com/buger/goterm	terminal backend
buger	https://github.com/buger/jsonparser	json parser
eiannone	https://github.com/eiannone/keyboard	keyboard input
faiface	https://github.com/faiface/beep	sound engine
xarg	https://github.com/xarg/gopathfinding	A* impl
xiaonanln	https://github.com/xiaonanln/go-lockfree-pool	pool

and me for the game bugs...

Problems

• It's hard
• Glitch ai behavior
• Rare crash on closing
• Flickering when many unit displays on screen (only for Windows Terminal), try to reduce unit count or disable color

Disclaimer

I'm not a game developer and not a Go developer

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