kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library
I love doing experiments - side projects to my side projects, for fun or out of necessity.
Sometimes those experiments and end up in something useful, other times - not so much. Let me tell you about one of the latter projects - about terminals, user interfaces, and trade-offs.
Here's the source code, though beware - it's raw.
My programming spare time is dedicated mostly towards kartoffels, a game of mine where you're implementing firmwares for tiny robots:
Main menu of the upcoming kartoffels v0.8.
For the next version I've started to work on a new challenge, a map where your bot is stranded on an island - as the player, you have to implement a bot that collects some nearby rocks and arranges them into a HELP ME text:
An island in the middle of an ocean -- if only you squeeze your eyes a bit and assume that the gray dots are, in fact, sand; this is work-in-progress, so you have to picture rocks as well.
Since ocean is rarely stationary, I thought it'd be nice to add waves as a visual gimmick - inspired by a shader, I went with:
Waves, slowly waving around.
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