Welcome to SadConsole
SadConsole is cross-platform .NET game library that provides an engine to emulate old-school console and command prompt style graphics. SadConsole is built in a generic way and doesn't do any rendering itself. A game engine or other rendering library is required to draw SadConsole games. There are host libraries for MonoGame and SFML. The ascii character set is represented in a sprite sheet, much like other modern ascii games such as Dwarf Fortress.
Dependencies
SadConsole uses NuGet for its .NET dependencies.
Demo
The .NET templates provided by SadConsole can generate a demo application that showcases SadConsole. The follwoing commands install the SadConsole templates, generates the demo application, and then runs it.
dotnet new --install SadConsole.Templates
dotnet new sadconsole-demo
dotnet run
To learn how to use SadConsole, see Get Started 1 - Draw on a console.
Features
Here are some of the features SadConsole supports.
- Show any number of consoles of any size.
- Uses PNG graphic fonts supporting more than 256 characters.
- Fonts are simply sprite sheet tilesets tied to ascii codes, you can use full graphical tiles if you want.
- Full GUI system for interactive controls such as list boxes, buttons, and text fields.
- Keyboard and mouse support.
- Read ansi files from the good old DOS days.
- Entity support for drawing thousands of movable objects on the screen
- Animated consoles and instruction system to chain commands together.
- String encoding system for colors and effects while printing.
GUI library
String display and parsing
Scrolling
