Few game concepts are as immediately readable as Frogger. You look at it for three seconds and you know exactly what to do. Cross the road, don't get hit. Cross the river, don't fall in. Make it h...
There is a particular kind of pressure that only real-time terminal games can generate. No graphics, no sound design, just a grid of letters crawling across a screen and the growing certainty that...
If you've ever wanted a game that rewards careful thinking but punishes you for being too clever, Greed is it. It's a deceptively simple terminal strategy game where the goal is to consume as much...
If you've ever wanted to chomp ghosts without leaving your terminal, MyMan is the game for you. It's a faithful text-mode recreation of Namco's classic Pac-Man, running entirely in your console us...
Some terminal games try to recreate twitch arcade experiences. Cavez of Phear takes a different approach — it's a slow-burn puzzle game about caves, diamonds, rolling boulders, and the ever-pres...
Introduction
This blog is a small corner of the internet dedicated to building, breaking, and experimenting with things in the terminal.
The main focus is simple: time-waster applications. Terminal...