# JoelOtter/termloop

Terminal-based game engine for Go, built on top of Termbox

Repository: https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/termloop
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: golang, game-engine, terminal, terminal-game
Last push: 2024-07-29T23:57:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4120, "days_push": 765, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1472, forks 80 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:49.449066+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: game-engine, graphics, animation
- domain: cross-platform
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: terminal-game, termbox, ascii-art, collision-detection, retro-gaming, game-development, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- JoelOtter/termloop (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.449066+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:34:39.926043+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/JoelOtter/termloop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.449066+00:00, sha 9913d008c93a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.