JoelOtter/termloop

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1472 stars · 80 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Termloop is a pure Go game engine for building games that run in the terminal, built on top of Termbox. It provides a simple render loop with keyboard/mouse input, collision detection, and entity loading from ASCII art, images, and JSON maps.

Use cases

• build a snake game in the terminal
• create a terminal-based roguelike in Go
• make a text-mode arcade game
• render ASCII art levels in a terminal game
• add collision detection to a terminal game
• build a minesweeper clone that runs in the shell

When to choose

• you want to write terminal games in pure Go with easy cross-compilation
• you need a simple, fun render loop for text-mode games
• you want built-in entities, collision detection, and ASCII level loading

When to avoid

• you need graphical or audio-heavy games with full portability
• you want a mature, breaking-change-free engine for production games
• you're building games outside the terminal

Facets

library · maturity active

game-engine graphics animation cross-platform go cli cross-platform windows terminal-game termbox ascii-art collision-detection retro-gaming game-development command-line linux macos

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