Cosplay

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        ASCII Game Engine for Scala3             

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

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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

Prerequisites:

• Java 11+ (download)

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

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

• 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?

• Join discord
• Documentation, examples and built-in games
• Post a question at Stack Overflow using <code>cosplay</code> tag
• File a bug or improvement in GitHub Issues
• Join project on GitHub

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2023 Rowan Games, Inc.

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