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🕹 2D ASCII Game Engine for Scala3
Source code at GitHub https://cosplayengine.com
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        ASCII Game Engine for Scala3

License build Maven Central

Check out www.cosplayengine.com for the full documentation.

What is CosPlay?

Section titled “What is CosPlay?”

CosPlay is 2D ASCII game engine written in Scala3:

  • Free, open source and royalty free
  • First truly native ASCII/ANSI game engine
  • Freedom of JVM runtime ecosystem
  • Native support for any ANSI terminal on macOS, Windows, Linux, Unix, or z/OS
  • 8-bit and “True Color” 24-bit color modes
  • Advanced sprite-based animation
  • Camera focus tracking
  • Extensive 2D ASCII graphics support
  • Powerful user-programmable shaders
  • Built-in particle effects support
  • Extensive imaging support including REXPaint format
  • Multi-channel audio & ASCII-video support
  • 277 built-in FIGLet fonts with full rendering
  • Built-in log viewer, debugger and terminal emulator
  • CosPlay also comes with many examples for each functional area:
    • The source code for these examples is shipped with the project (see org.cosplay.examples package).

Install and Use Cosplay

Section titled “Install and Use Cosplay”

Prerequisites:

Using SBT:

libraryDependencies += "org.cosplayengine" % "cosplay" % "0.9.5"

Using Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.cosplayengine</groupId>
  <artifactId>cosplay</artifactId>
  <version>0.9.5</version>
</dependency>

One-Time Git Clone & Build:

Section titled “One-Time Git Clone & Build:”
$ git clone https://github.com/nivanov/cosplay.git
$ cd cosplay
$ sbt package

For developers interested in contributing to the project, you can work within your own feature off-master branches and create pull requests. For those just interested in using CosPlay to create games - you can just get the most recent version via SBT or Maven.

Development

Section titled “Development”
  • First, fork the repository and clone to your own machine.
  • Create new feature branch off the master branch.
  • Work on your changes in that branch and submit pull requests with your proposed changes.

Questions?

Section titled “Questions?”
Section titled “Copyright”

Copyright (C) 2023 Rowan Games, Inc.

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