simonkoeck / dino

Jump 'n' Run in your terminal

Dino

Jump 'n' Run in your terminal

About

Dino is inspired by Chrome Dino Game. But instead of a dino the main player is a person (mainly due to the lack of creativity and also copyright issues :D).

The controls are rather simple:

• space to jump
• esc to exit

Prerequisites

• .NET Core 6.0

Setup

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/simonkoeck/dino.git && cd dino

2. Restore/install packages

dotnet restore

3. Run the game

dotnet run

Building

dotnet build --configuration Release

After running this command, an executable should be built to bin/Release/.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-build for more details.

Supported Platforms

Dino is available for

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac

As long as your platform is supported by .NET, you can build dino.

Behind the scenes

Dino's whole game is rendered inside a console (System.Console Namespace). Due to performance issues, only the objects which are updated will be rerendered. Rendering is done using Console.SetCursorPosition function.

The game difficulty is based on the score and decreases the obstacle instantiation timeout, which makes the game faster and harder.

Contributing

Every contribution is welcome! Please commit any pull requests against the main branch.