Terminal Arcade
Side quests when agents are cooking
Details
- External ID
- 48067106
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Terminal Arcade
- Website domain
- twitter.com
- Launched
- May 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I was having way too much free time even when i was working on 6-7 different projects at the same time with claude code and codex. Staring at the terminal when agents are cooking code for you was just too boring in the last 6-7 months so had to look for fun little side quests and ended up building a terminal arcade, it is still in its infancy and more of a personal hobby project. Out of all things, i ended up liking the bookshelf a lot when I built the post tool hook where i get a quote from a book for every 5th tool call, learning about new books became my daily habit now.It is open source: https://github.com/Amal-David/terminal-arcadeFeel free to share any suggestions or add any new games or just have fun playing any games!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- game for when agents are working
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a collection of simple classic terminal games (Snake, Tetris, Dino Run) runnable in standard CLI terminals.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: Kayf
Competitors
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Launched 191 days after the earliest competitor.
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