Projects

Projects I’m Cooking

teeny_tiny_games - Terminal Game Collection

Forced myself to write silly TUI games in Python. Here’s what I’ve built so far:

Board games:

• tic-tac-toe (98 lines, functional style, 3x3 grid with win detection)
• connect four (90 lines, OOP, 6x7 grid with ANSI colors and gravity physics)
• battleships (176 lines, 10x10 grid, random ship placement, dual-board rendering for 2 players)
• othello (207 lines, 8x8 grid with piece flipping and valid move detection)

Arcade games:

• snake (78 lines, WASD controls, wraparound edges, collision detection)
• tetris (234 lines, all 7 tetrominos, rotation matrix math, line clearing with garbage collection)

Simple games:

• hangman (55 lines, word list file I/O, 6 lives)
• rock paper scissors (78 lines, class-based, nice UI with box drawing characters)
• heads or tails (23 lines, basic probability)

In progress:

• blackjack (22 lines, only deck setup so far - still figuring out the rules to the game)
• text adventure (RPG with branching narrative)

Trying to refactor all the games above into a unified library architecture. The goal is to extract the repetitive boilerplate (game loops, grid rendering, input validation, player switching) into reusable base classes.

Here’s the repo if you’re curious: https://github.com/craftsoldier/teeny_tiny_games