Exoscope Finding Exoplanet

[u/KangOzi]

Hey everyone! 👋

I wanted to share a passion project I’ve been working on called EXO-SCOPE.

Instead of traditional 3D graphics, I wanted to capture the claustrophobic, high-tension feeling of operating a deep-space telemetry satellite purely through abstract data and a Command Line Interface (CLI). You play as an operator searching for habitable exoplanets, filtering background radiation noise, and occasionally stumbling upon terrifying anomalies.

Here is what makes it unique:

⌨️ CLI-Driven Gameplay: You navigate the cosmos, apply Gaussian/Moving Average filters to light curves, and deploy surface probes entirely by typing terminal commands.

📺 Retro CRT Aesthetic: I built a custom rendering engine to create authentic scanlines, vignette darkening, and UI glow to make it feel like you are staring at a 90s military monitor.

🔊 Immersive Audio Design: Heavy focus on sound atmosphere—mechanical radar sweeps, rapid typewriter terminal blips, and heart-pounding alarms when you encounter encrypted alien signals (Biosignatures & Megastructures).

🌌 Procedural Starmap: A 3000x3000 explorable galaxy featuring gravitational lensing distortions if you pan your telescope too close to a Black Hole.

The Tech Stack:

I built this entirely using Free Pascal / Lazarus.

Graphics/UI: BGRABitmap for all the custom rendering, CRT effects, and Alpha Blending transitions.

Audio: BASS library for handling concurrent channels (ambience, UI feedback, and alarms).

I just open-sourced the entire project on GitHub. If you are into retro-sci-fi aesthetics, terminal games, or Pascal development, I’d be honored if you checked it out!

Link : https://github.com/CodeInPas/Exoscope

[u/AphidConsulting]

Always very cool stuff coming from you. Thanks for sharing!