Node.js Console Game Engine

A basic console game engine for Node.js.

Installation

You can use npm to install Engine: npm install console-game-engine

Quick start

const ConsoleGame = require("console-game-engine");
//New game object
const game = new ConsoleGame();
//First render.
game.render();
/*Result of this render:
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*/

const write = [[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5]];


for (const [x, y] of write) {
    game.set(x, y);
}
/*Result of this:
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██ █████████████
███ ████████████
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*/

for (const [x, y] of write){
    game.set(x + 6, y);
}
/*Result of this:
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████████████████
█ █████ ████████
██ █████ ███████
███ █████ ██████
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*/

Result:

Usage:

New Game:

For creating new game map.

//Default values for Class:
const width=16, height=8, backgroundChracter = "█";

const game = new ConsoleGame(width,height, BackgroundChracter);

Render:

For write map to console.

 game.render();

Clear:

For clearing console. No effect to map.

 game.clear();

Reset:

For resetting, backing first version of map (Defined in new ConsoleGame()):

 game.reset();

Set:

Setting a Chracter in map:

//Default values for this:
const x=1,y=1, chracter = " ";

 game.set(x,y,chracter );

WARNING: No need to use the render function, it has render in itself.

Get:

Getting a Chracter from map:

 const chracter= game.get(1,1);
 console.log(chracter)

WARNING: It has not default parameters.