dogfight-cli is a cross-platform terminal-based Python game using the curses library. The game hopes to recreate the joy I experienced playing Super Dogfight on the Commodore64.

Two (for now) player-controlled planes battle it out in an infinite box-arena firing and dodging cannon rounds.

The game uses the socket library to allow for multiplayer games over a network.

No extra dependencies are required. The game has been tested on python 3.8.

Clone the git repository.

Navigate into the directory and run:

python3 dogfight-cli.py

To run a server, make sure your firewall will allow incoming connections on the (free) port you choose to use, then run:

python3 server.py <your.ip.address> <port>

Run ifconfig (or ipconfig) to find out your local network or internet IP addresses.

The start menu allows you to choose your game type (Local or Network).

If selecting a Network game, provide the IP address and port of the running server to make a connection. For now, the game will hang until a second connection joins the server.

Use the KEY_UP, KEY_DOWN and SPACE keys to navigate (by changing the pitch of the plane) and fire cannon rounds.

On a Local game, the second player controls are A and W to navigate, and D to fire cannon rounds.

run dogfight-cli.py with a -D flag to display a debugging box the Arena. Pass the -L flag to generate a session-specific log (timestamped).