That configuration makes the following appear above my normal gboard keyboard: So, paying special attention to the keys I used the most that weren’t easily available on gboard, I wrote a small Termux keyboard layout. This meant that, in theory, I could create a custom keyboard to make things a little less annoying to control, and that would get rid of most of my immediate issues with playing the game. And even if I did, I could run Angband with lower terminal row and column counts to make things bigger without the game complaining. But I also discovered that I didn’t have nearly as much trouble seeing the game in portrait mode as I initially though I would. It’s our first Roguelike, and it took basically zero effort to get running!Īs expected, after starting the game it became immediately apparent that controls were going to become an issue. Of course, I did that nearly immediately after discovering I could.
#Angband sil install#
And actually, right in the official game repo, you could install Angband! Just the fact that you could apt install things that I had previously thought were impossible to run on Android sold me on using Termux basically instantly.
#Angband sil full#
It's a full Linux environment that works on a phone! And while it does have some limitations, the fact that I have a working version of *ffmpeg* on my phone that I installed by running "apt install ffmpeg" is just bonkers- Arch 💕 February 4, 2020 It's still wild to me that I slept on Termux for so long You can install packages, compile code, and even run entire others Linux distributions in proots if you run into limitations of the native environment. Termux is a shell and Linux environment for Android, and with it, you can use the command line on your phone like you would on most other Linux distributions.
The alternative would be using a portion of the already-tiny screen for all the keys, making the actual game microscopic!īut on the other hand, could you imagine being able to play ADOM on the go? It was definitely still worth trying! Termux Roguelikes also have a habit of using a substantial number of keys on a full keyboard, so layering those over the screen seemed like it would be a major nonstarter. Now, I’ve seen people play games in emulators on phones before, and the touchscreen semi-transparent control schemes those all used seemed, well…like something I probably couldn’t tolerate for long enough to enjoy any game beyond the initial novelty. In this post, I’ll talk a little about my adventures in getting these little RPGs working on an unrooted Android phone!
#Angband sil portable#
But the “potential cool” of being able to have portable ADOM outweighed the negatives.
To me, the idea of being able to possibly play something from a genre of largely-free games that required next-to no battery power and sported a basically limitless amount of replayability on my phone was something of a minor dream! But if you’re anything like me, the idea of trying to control these things with touchscreen controls seemed like it would be painful at best. The last few months of my time has been on-and-off spent trying to get a number of traditional roguelikes to run on my phone.
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