Looks really cool and it's Python too! Interesting how all assets are string inserts unto the map [1]. Looks like a conceptually solid engine and great introduction to game dev.
I had some success using the gen one Pokémon maps as a memory palace base. Very recognisable even in ascii
What sort of things would you place in your memory palace? The concept has always been interesting but I’ve struggled to come up with useful applications outside of pure competition
I used it a lot for university exam cramming.
Most practical use is speech talking points in place of cards, and foreign language vocabulary for self quizzing and revision. I never tried to keep anything really long term that way
I place things I want to write down when I get back to somewhere there is a pen and paper.
I remember an AOL chat bot where u could train and battle pokemon. And this introduced me to hex editing because the author of the chat bot hard-coded his AOL name to be able to cheat and raises arbitrary stats of your pokemon in the ui of the game server.
If I remember correctly, you had to have a 9 or 13 letter name because it would corrupt the executable otherwise.
Awesome project. I love the idea of recreating a game in the terminal. I tried doing an exact clone of Pokemon once (with graphics and everything), but keeping the frame rate up always requires getting into the low-level weeds. Sometimes it's nice to write a purely "high-level" game without worrying about that stuff at all. I feel like the terminal is a great way to do that.
Termon, not pockete. Who has a terminal in their pockets?