[skytreader]

Games of course! Doesn't have to be fancy with graphics at first but the beauty here is graphics/frontend/UI is definitely on the table if you want to pursue it later. In the same spirit, it's very easy to add features/mechanics to it. Get creative!

- Simplest game ever is a number guessing game. Obviously solvable by binary search on the player side. It's like an exciting counterpart for Fibonacci for learning PL flow-control structures. Additional features: limit number of guesses, make players guess floats instead of just ints. Latter will obviously teach you about FP handling in your language of choice.

- Next up, make that two dimensional, so the player is now guessing coordinates instead of numbers. Needs more math, you will definitely implement the distance formula. You can add a backstory if you like (are you bombing enemies in stealth perhaps?) and add mechanics based on that backstory.

- For something more complex---and I think this is your level now---people might suggest a constrained DF/Rogue-like. But me, that always grows more complex than a pedagogical device when I do it. So I stick to boring text games, sometimes inspired by game shows. Quizmaster-types (ala Who Wants to be a Millionaire), hangman-types (ala Wheel of Fortune), would force you to create structures for abstraction, all staying within complexity budget.

Happy hacking!

[theiasson]

There is a debian package called 'bsdgames'[0] that contains several simple text-based games for people looking for some ideas.

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/bsdgames/index.html