minecraft in terminal with ascii graphics

Simple C program written from scratch with keyboard controls

[Remianr]

How people think gaming on Linux looks like:

[stup]

finally, something my computer can run

[Wheagg]

The first line is just "//good luck deciphering this mess" and if that's not peak programming idk what is

[szymach]

Next time you do console animations I recommend looking at the curses library as it will allow you to have a single output buffer that you update instead of writing a new buffer every frame

[DSamp]

To be honest, I actually expected a LWJGL plugin that transformed actual Minecraft gameplay from an OpenGL renderer onto a terminal at first.

[DinoNuggies]

Notch: So, how's minecraft 2 going?
Jeb: Pretty good, just got the blocks mechanic working
Notch: Cool beans, yo what graphics library is that?
Jeb: Whats a graphics library?

[RacTac]

Imagine how good this would look with Unicode graphics

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You made this in 463 lines of code 🤯
Man you are a genius.

[Nik-dzyc]

Hah that's very nice ! I've done similar things like this and even made a terminal Engine for Linux called Elafri. You can implement colors too with escape codes and much more like mouse input and such (although you can't center the mouse)

[Bluepaccao]

I Love the comment in your source code, "good luck deciphering this mess"😂. Impressive work, props to you!

[espero_dev]

I like how it’s in a Linux based operation system

[TheClonerx]

This is really neat, but here are some things you could do:
Don't connect to the X server each frame, use a global variable for the connection
Clear the screen before rendering

[НикитаФедосеев-ев]

This is what the prototype of Minecraft looked basically

[jamadventurer]

"Minecraft but it was invented in the 1970's the time of MS-DOS"

[clonetroop]

The graphical improvements we’ve been waiting for!

[alexosow]

I'd like to imagine this is how Minecraft started out

[mitchwar]

Insane work, really inspirational as a 3D graphics

[rodricbr]

doesn't matter how many times I see this, this never gets old. too impressive

[nattrium]

I love it !
Did you know that if terminal support ANSI codes (and I sure hope it does), you can move the cursor on the terminal freely and you may then overwrite what was on screen without those "jumps" we see sometimes. You may even add color and (slight) formatting if you're bold enough.

[michaelandersen]

Ah yes, a.out, the name of all the best prototypes