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The old school Atari Pong game remade in terminal with Golang.

For the best experience, make your terminal fullscreen or zoom it out.

The game currently worksonly on Linux systems due to platform-dependent key detection.
For a similar reason, this gamemust be run with superuser privileges.

To interact with terminal, thetcell package API is used.
For keyboard events detection, thekeylogger package API is used.
For command line argument parsing, thego-flags package API is used.

It is a compromise that had to be made. Since you cannot detect keyboard press and release key events through terminal, packagekeylogger is used to do it. Basically, it reads input from/dev/input/event* which requires root access. It is a drawback, but without it, the game would not be playable.

• Two player local multiplayer!
• Command line arguments!
• Start menu!
• Round pausing!
• AI!
• Themes!
• ... and more to come!

To compile this project into an executable, run:

go get github.com/spinzed/tpong

You should be able to run the game via commandsudo tpong.
Note: make sure than$GOPATH/bin is in your path, otherwise you won't be able to run the command from anywhere else but from$GOPATH/bin.

Alternative is to git clone this repo, cd into it and run:

sudo go run.

Eventually, this project may be expanded:

1. that it can be hosted via HTTP API
2. that it is compatible with online play

Any form of contribution or feedback is appreciated!