ROFLBALT - A Canabalt-inspired sidescroller in ASCII for your console.

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43 points·dhotson··10 comments

This is a game I wrote with my friend Paul Annesley on the weekend at RailscampX in Adelaide.

It's written with Ruby 1.9 with no dependencies. It's just using 'print' statements and ansi escape sequences for color. ;-)

Video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoHmJfXqwbM

It was great to see the progression of this game over the course of the weekend. Nice work, guys!

Thanks!

If you want to play this game, be sure your terminal window is sized to 120x40 characters.

That helps, but it still totally doesn't work for me in iTerm, and I'm not sure why. I basically get sometimes nearly-correct but mostly just messed up rendering.

Are you running Ruby 1.9?

For some reason it has crazy rendering problems in Ruby 1.8, which we haven't got around to debugging yet.

If you're using iTerm2 and the window is sized large enough, it ought to work.

Ah yes, ruby 1.8.7.

More specifically; your terminal must be at least 120x40 characters. Larger than that is fine, smaller wont work.

I can’t get it to work. My Terminal window is xterm-color, and I ran “rvm 1.9.2” and then “./rofl”, but I see only black text on a white background, and the picture flashes white every half-second, making the game unplayable.

Try it in iTerm2. The Terminal app included in OSX Snow Leopard doesn't support 256 colors. The terminal included in OSX Lion should work however.

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