Fhere are many other projects similar to pokemon-colorscripts in the "printing out pokemon to terminal utilities" space.
Two of the notable projects that I have come across are pokeget and pokeshell.
Both of them are really cool projects and hope to achieve slightly different results than pokemon-colorscripts.
As far as I can tell pokeshell aims to be a much more feature rich program than
pokemon-colorscripts at the expense of added dependencies and possibly speed.
As pokeshell uses images instead of simple text files, it allows pokeshell
to be much more flexible with what it can display.
Some of the advantages of pokeshell that caught my attention are
- Animated sprites
- Different sizes for pokemon
- Different forms
- Fits to terminal
- Bash completions
You can see a much more exhaustive list and also some comparisons with other programs on the Pokeshell readme
. Although some features like completions, forms, and different sizes are features I plan on adding to pokemon-colorscripts,
features like animated sprites are well out of scope for this project.
So if you want to use a more featured counterpart for this project, please do consider using pokeshell.
pokeget is mostly similar in spirit and features to pokemon-colorscripts with the key difference being pokeget
live fetches the sprites over the network from its github repo when displaying the pokemon.
This allows for more robust updates to sprites and such from the deveoper side without the user having to do anything.
However this also causes pokeget to be slightly slower and dependent on network availability and speed.
Some of the other notable advantages I've observed pokeget having are
- More comprehensive packaging and releases
- Much neater way to uninstall the program
- Some fixes to sprites like larger pokemon having blurry sprites in
pokemon-colorscripts - More forms and also front and back sprites
some of these are features I eventually plan on implementing in pokemon-colorscripts as well.
Both of these are really cool projects and please do consider checking them out and using them if they suit your needs. Also star, fork, contribute, support developers and all that jazz for both projects. There is plenty of room in the pokemon terminal space.