A tiny terminal endless‑runner written in Go using Bubble Tea & Lip Gloss.
Jump rocks, leap holes, chase the high score—all in your shell.
- Emoji sprites (
🐹,🪨,🟫) with double‑width handling - Adaptive layout: resizes to any terminal window
- Gentle speed ramp with per‑run reset
- Persistent high score stored locally in
.gopherdash_highscorein your executable's directory - Game‑over cooldown & restart (
Space)
# Go ≥1.24.4
go install github.com/krisfur/gopherdash@latestThe binary ends up in $GOBIN (usually ~/go/bin). Add that to your $PATH or run with a full path.
git clone https://github.com/krisfur/gopherdash.git
cd gopherdash
go run .| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Space or W |
Jump / Restart after game over |
Q |
Quit immediately |
- The hamster (
🐹) stays in the centre; the world scrolls left. - Press Space / W to hop over rocks (
🪨) or holes (🟫). - Distance increases every tick; speed slowly ramps up.
- Collide once and it’s Game Over—your distance compares to the high score.
- Wait the 2‑second countdown, then hit Space to dash again.
The game writes/reads a plain‑text integer from:
.gopherdash_highscore
It lives in whatever directory you launch the game from, so it vanishes if you move or delete the project folder. Feel free to add it to .gitignore.
PRs welcome! Bug fixes, difficulty tweaks, new themes—go for it.
- Fork & clone
git checkout -b feature/my‑thing- Hack away, keep the
go testgreen - Open a pull request
MIT © 2025 Krzysztof Furman
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│ Distance: 128 │
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│ │
│ 🐹 │
│🟫 🪨 🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫 │
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│ Space = jump Q = quit │
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