Gaming with Emacs

alpha2phi
3 min readMar 8, 2021

Yes, you can play games in Emacs!

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Overview

Continue from my previous article where I walked through with you on setting up LSP and DAP for Emacs, in this article let’s explore gaming in Emacs for amusement and relaxation after a hard day of coding, all within Emacs.

Built-in Games

Tetris

  • Command: M-x tetris
  • Instructions: C-h m
Tetris

Snake

  • Command: M-x snake
  • Instructions: C-h m
Snake

Bubbles

  • Command: M-x bubbles
  • Instructions: C-h m
Bubbles

Conway’s Game of Life

  • Command: M-x life
  • Instructions: C-h m

Text Animation

  • Command: M-x animate-birthday-present
animate-birthday-present

5x5

  • Command: M-x 5x5
  • Instructions: C-h m
5x5

Gomoku

  • Command: M-x gomoku
  • Instructions: C-h m
alpha2phi

Software engineer, Data Science and ML practitioner.