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Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator by hesdeadjim on Sunday March 01, 2026 @12:07PM (#47208522)
Random advice question. My brother taught himself to program and has been making a terminal-based game. What started out small has turned into a highly polished game with ascii art, sound, you name it.

I’ve been trying to figure out how I could actually help him distribute it and I keep coming back to the best option being to wrap his programs terminal output into a host process that can emulate and render it. It seems that the lib Ghostty might be perfect for the former, but not quite yet on the latter?

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Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator by bewuethr on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:30PM (#47209843)
Maybe as an SSH app? See https://snakes.run for a recent example.
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Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator by _jackdk_ on Sunday March 01, 2026 @07:27PM (#47212350)
I don't have specific references for you, but perhaps you could look into how old-school roguelikes packaged their software for distribution. Particularly ones that made the jump to Steam or Itch?
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Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator by LaxisB on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:35AM (#47215663)
somehwere else in this thread this project was mentioned (uses libghostty): https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

that might be a viable approach for you

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Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator by hesdeadjim on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:46AM (#47220419)
Never heard of this, thank you!
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