I’ve been working on a roguelike game and I was planning on using the libjcsi library but have run into some issues with it. I was thinking of swapping over to a more general java graphics library and was wondering what you guys would recommend. Note that I won’t be doing anything too fancy. The game will likely consist of a grid of tiles and some menus.
Thanks for any help!
Unfortunately there are few java libraries there. Libjcsi and Blacken are the two mains ones I could find and neither has a comprehensive tutorial on their usage. There is a quick tutorial on how to use JNI to implement the curses library for direct console access. This, however, lacks some features I would definitely like (Background color being one of them).
A roguelike game is just a tile based game with ASCII characters as tiles. So any tile game engine should work.
And if you need character manipulation at a specific position via the console, there is jncurses (A JNI java wrapper around ncurses)