Show HN: Terminal Arcade – Side quests when agents are cooking

[amaldavid]

I was having way too much free time even when i was working on 6-7 different projects at the same time with claude code and codex. Staring at the terminal when agents are cooking code for you was just too boring in the last 6-7 months so had to look for fun little side quests and ended up building a terminal arcade, it is still in its infancy and more of a personal hobby project. Out of all things, i ended up liking the bookshelf a lot when I built the post tool hook where i get a quote from a book for every 5th tool call, learning about new books became my daily habit now.

It is open source: https://github.com/Amal-David/terminal-arcade

Feel free to share any suggestions or add any new games or just have fun playing any games!

[Paultru]

love the terminal bookshelf idea, that's a genuinely creative direction — quotes on post-hook is a nice touch. if you're ever working on the browser side too (ChatGPT, Claude web), there's a similar thing i built called Kayf (getkayf.com) that auto-switches you to a break tab while the AI responds and brings you back when it's done — kind of the same itch but for the browser. would be curious what games you ended up putting in the arcade though.