terminal-mines

An ncurses-based minesweeper game. This was made because I wanted a minesweeper game that was efficient to play without mouse. It's also a reference frontend for libminesweeper.

Installation

OSX Homebrew

brew install joelekstrom/repo/terminal-mines

Other OS's/manual compilation

After cloning the project, cd to the folder and run:

git submodule update --init
make install

Terminal Mines is now installed on your system.

Starting the game

Run the game by typing terminal-mines. Run terminal-mines --help or man terminal-mines to view additional info.

To select size/difficulty, play with the following options:

• --width Width of the game board
• --height Height of the game board
• --mine-density a value between 0.0 and 1.0 where 1.0 means every tile will have a mine, and 0.0 means zero tiles will have mines.

All the arguments can be written shorthand with the first letter in the name.

Example:

terminal-mines -w 20 -h 20 -m 0.5

Controls

• Movement: hjkl or arrow keys
• Place flag: f or g
• Open tile: ,

The controls were inspired by nethack/vim.

Adventure Mode

Adventure Mode is a new mode added in version 1.1.0. To start a game in adventure mode, use the --adventure-mode or -a option. When playing in adventure mode, you control the player character, @, and you must reach the exit tile, >.

Every tile you cross will be opened, and you can not place any flags. The standard difficulty options work in adventure mode as well.

Using plain ASCII

If you prefer the old graphics, compile with make ascii-only before running make install.

Uninstall

To completely remove terminal mines (if you compiled it yourself), run make uninstall in the source folder.