Games::Console 0.04

Games::Console Perl module provide a 2D quake style in-game console.

SYNOPSIS

use Games::Console;

my $console = Games::Console->new(
font => $font_object,
background_color => [ 1,1,0],
background_alpha => 0.4,
text_color => [ 1,1,1 ],
text_alpha => 1,
speed => 50, # in percent per second
height => 50, # fully opened, in percent of screen
width => 100, # fully opened, in percent of screen
backbuffer_size => 100, # keep so many messages
prompt => >,
cursor => _,
);

$console->screen_width($width);
$console->screen_height($height);
$console->toggle($current_time);
$console->message(Hello there!);
$console->input(a);

This package provides you with a quake-style console for your games. The console gathers messages and lets you scroll trough them. It also can display a command line.

This package is just a base class setting up everything, but doesnt actually render anything.

See Games::Console::SDL and Games::Console::OpenGL for subclasses that implement the actual rendering to the screen via SDL and OpenGL, respectively.