On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 09:20:20PM +0200, Marcus Glocker wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 04:50:03PM -0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > On 2017-05-17, Marcus Glocker <mar...@nazgul.ch> wrote: > > > > > This is a display-based version of the Space Invaders game. > > > > What does "display-based" mean? > > Good question :-) > > I was going back and forth about calling it "display-based", like e.g. > tetris(6) and snake(6) do, or "console-based", like e.g. games/bluemoon > does. Since you can run the game in a xterm as well, which isn't the > same as a console IMO, I went for the first. Of course there would be > options like calling it e.g. "curses-based" or "ascii-based" as well. > > It seems that we already maintain a mix of all those terms ... > Or what would be your preference?
Maybe "tty-based" would be the right term for such games in general.
