Programming a game for console

[thatotherguy667]

What I want to do is create a game like an old DOS game, but on the debian linux console. I don't know much about linux yet, but I know C. What would be the best library for doing something like this?

[JohnGraham]

Depends on what you really want. If you want a pure console game, the ncurses library is probably what you should go for - there are plenty of tutorials on the web.

[thatotherguy667]

What about for games like Doom and Castle wolfenstein?

[JohnGraham]

SDL provides a fairly complete and cross-platform library for doing general game "stuff" - you can even check out prboom, a complete Doom clone written using it.

[thatotherguy667]

Oh I didn't realize that you could use SDL on the console, thanks.

[JohnGraham]

Oh I didn't realize that you could use SDL on the console, thanks.

Erm... what do you mean by "console"? You can't use SDL to display graphics on a terminal emulator, if that's what you mean - but you couldn't display Doom, either...

[thatotherguy667]

I mean like if I press ctrl-alt-F1, that kind of terminal I guess.... Sorry I'm bad at explaining this stuff

[coopstah13]

you couldn't run doom or wolfenstein on those, as they require graphics framebuffer

if you are running console only, you will need to use something like ncurses as previously suggested

[zgrw]

ncurses will be a great help to you for a game like space invaders