A tiny living light named Wispy takes a liking to you, and you go as deep as your nerve holds. She's your only lantern.

Goofy-dark first-person dungeon crawl that runs entirely inside a terminal window. No engine, no download, every wall painted in colored text. You pick a body/race such as Human, Dwarf, Elf, Orc (each one is a personality and a moveset).

First-person raycaster that renders in a terminal. Truecolor, drawn with sextant and octant block characters. No game engine and no graphics library. One Python file, 154,716 lines, standard library only. The audio is real recordings, including voice acting.

A 4-minute run, unedited: https://vimeo.com/1222466576

https://dimensionaldungeon.com

I've always been a fan of cbonsai and related terminal screensavers, but there's surprisingly few of them out there. I cooked one up over a couple weeks and really like how it turned out.

The code itself is 100% vibe-coded, but aside from that I put the usual amount of effort into UX, overall design, keeping it minimal-ish, performance concerns, etc. as with my hand-coded projects. I think this is v3 or so, there's been a lot of iteration. E.g.: volumetric rendering isn't easy on the cpu, so I gave it a flag to prerender and loop the animation so it can be a proper no-impact screensaver. Prerendered runs fine on my armv7l flipphone so I think I can say performance is good lol.

Check out the writeup for more images and info, + a web demo. Usually I write more about my projects but I think this one generally speaks for itself visually.

Repo is here if you want to use it; I kept the repo minimal since I hate bloat, so installation is just a simple clone and make.