SadConsole

SadConsole is a C#-based .NET cross-platform terminal, ascii, console, game engine. It simulates these types of programs and with it you can make ascii-styled games for modern platforms. At its heart, SadConsole is really a giant tile-based game engine. However, its object model is conceptually similar to a traditional console app.

SadConsole supports MonoGame, SFML, and FNA. It's distributed primarily through NuGet. SadConsole is fully open source and is hosted on GitHub. Documentation is available on SadConsole.com.

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Get started with SadConsole:

• Create a new SadConsole .NET project with the SadConsole templates
• Tutorial series

Here are some of the features SadConsole supports.

• Show any number of consoles of any size.
• Uses graphical tile-based images to build out an ASCII-character font with support for more than 256 characters.
• Fonts are simply sprite sheet tilesets tied to ascii codes, you can use full graphical tiles if you want.
• Use more than one font file. However, each console is restricted to a single font.
• Full GUI system for interactive controls such as list boxes, buttons, and text fields.
• Importers for DOS ANSI files, TheDraw text fonts, RexPaint, and Playscii.
• Animated consoles and instruction system to chain commands together.
• String encoding system for colors and effects while printing.
• Entity support for drawing thousands of movable objects on the screen
• Translating images to text-blocks.
• Keyboard and mouse support.
• Highly customizable framework.

The latest versions are always published to NuGet.