[HN Gopher] Pokete: Terminal based Pokemon like game
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       Pokete: Terminal based Pokemon like game
        
       Author : asicsp
       Score  : 99 points
       Date   : 2022-03-19 11:28 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | nickstinemates wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | nickstinemates wrote:
         | If I remember correctly, you had to have a 9 or 13 letter name
         | because it would corrupt the executable otherwise.
        
       | gillesjacobs wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | 1. https://github.com/lxgr-
       | linux/scrap_engine/blob/master/scrap...
        
       | SeanLuke wrote:
       | Seems to have lots of problems on Mac OS. :-(
        
       | Hani1337 wrote:
       | Termon, not pockete. Who has a terminal in their pockets?
        
         | politelemon wrote:
         | I have a terminal on my phone in my pocket!
        
       | totetsu wrote:
       | I had some success using the gen one Pokemon maps as a memory
       | palace base. Very recognisable even in ascii
        
         | ttamslam wrote:
         | 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
        
           | gillesjacobs wrote:
           | I used it a lot for university exam cramming.
        
           | totetsu wrote:
           | 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
        
           | pigeons wrote:
           | I place things I want to write down when I get back to
           | somewhere there is a pen and paper.
        
       | jbmny wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | vander_elst wrote:
       | Some of the terminology might need some review e.g. second attack
       | of this pokete https://github.com/lxgr-
       | linux/pokete/blob/master/assets/ss/s...
        
         | inportb wrote:
         | I bet this was intentional, given the pokete's name...
        
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