dotfiles/emacs.d/layers/+fun/games

Games layer

• Table of Contents
• Description
• Install
• Games instructions
  • 2048
  • Pacmacs
  • Tetris
  • Typit
    • Create a new dictionary

Description

This layer allows you to play evilified games in spacemacs.

The games available now are:

• 2048-game

• Pacmacs (Pacman for Emacs)

• Tetris

• Typit

Install

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add games to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Games instructions

To run a game:

Key Binding	Description
SPC a G	Open an helm buffer to select a game

Possible helm actions:

• run (default)

• quit

• reset

2048

Key Binding	Description
h	Move the tiles left
j	Move the tiles down
k	Move the tiles up
l	Move the tiles right

Pacmacs

Key Binding	Description
h	Move left
j	Move down
k	Move up
l	Move right

Tetris

Key Binding	Description
h	Move block to the left
i	Rotate block counter-clockwise
j	Move block to the bottom
k	Rotate block clockwise
l	Move block to the right
n	Start a new game
p	Pause the game
q	Quit the game

Typit

There is no specific key bindings for this game, just launch it and begin typing. Use C-g to exit the game at any time.

There are two difficulties:

• beginner: use 200 most common words

• expert: use 1000 most common words

By default a game duration is one minute.

The game can be customized with the following variables:

Vsariable	Description
typit-dict	Language dictionary to use (default is english.txt)
typit-dict-dir	A directory path where to find dictionaries
typit-line-length	Length of generated lines (default 80)
typit-test-time	Duration of a game in seconds (default 60)

Create a new dictionary

To add a new dictionary, you need to create a text file named your-language.txt and put it under the dict directory. That file should contain 1000 most common words from the language, a word per line. Please make sure that it uses Unix-style (that is, LF) end-of-line sequence and the file ends with a newline.