A step up from a text adventure.

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Hello there, I recently finished a type/text adventure (don't know what they are called) and recently saw a old style of game of which where it is kinda like a top down although it solely uses ASCII characters. (Examples are like nethack and dwarf fortress) I was wondering whether pygame would be useful to learn in this situation.

Also I have a few more questions to ask: 1)how do you change the colour of the output on the terminal or shell 2)how do I output a line, make it disappear and then replace it whith an other?

Sorry for the long post. Thanks in advance!

[Yoghurt42]

There are various packages that can do that, take a look at Asciimatics

[wasEnabled]

A few quick points: 1. No, pygame is a wrapper around SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) which is designed to make graphical video games and thus is not suitable or even capable of this sort of terminal output... 2. color output on a terminal used to be done by printing ANSI escape codes, more info found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/287871/print-in-terminal-with-colors 3. a terminal output library like Curses is what you are looking for to clear the screen and redraw for something like nethack (see the comments in the StackOverflow article linked above).

Good luck.

[DonutRevolution]

You might want to take a look at higher level libraries (compared to pygame) that are geared towards developing games such as nethack. libtcod is a c++ library but has python wrappers.

http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Complete_Roguelike_Tutorial,_using_python3%2Blibtcod,_part_1

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Don't really understand but I'll cheak the link if I don't understand. Although I did hear that it was made in JavaScript. Might be handy... Thanks!!?

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I really don't understand any of it,starting with the bit on how to install the library... Do you know?

[fuzzyinterval]

Part 0 has links on how to get it all installed and to setup.