Terminal Arcade – Side quests when agents are cooking

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

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-arcade Feel free to share any suggestions or add any new games or just have fun playing any games!

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