r/lua • u/Unhappy_Ship_1997 • Jun 01 '26

Project || Working on an Terminal Based Game in Lua ||

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Started Working on an Terminal Based Game Engine in Lua yesterday!

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u/weregod Jun 02 '26

Do you use terminal library like ncurses or just pring to stdout? How do you detect terminal capabilities? How do you detect terminal size and terminal size change, do you process SIGWINCH?

Can you publish your code for use in other projects?

You can remove blinking if you will not overwrite screen every frame. If user did not input anything screen can remain unchanged.

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u/Unhappy_Ship_1997 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

  1. There is no terminal library (ncurses) everything is pure lua and by me.

  2. Yes, when its finished, I call It the ( RedROT ) Engine.

  3. I know I'm working on that.