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Cc Terminal Games — Development skill for Claude Code

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Play games in your terminal when you wait for claude to finish thinking.

How to install Cc Terminal Games

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open alonw0/cc-terminal-games and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Cc Terminal Games does

Play games in your terminal when you wait for claude to finish thinking.

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README

Claude Code Mini Games

Play terminal games while Claude Code is thinking. When Claude finishes, the game disappears and Claude's output is perfectly preserved.

How it works

Real Terminal (stdin/stdout)
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  PTY Proxy (proxy.py) -- passthrough or game mode
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  Shell -> claude
       ^
  SIGUSR1 / SIGUSR2 (from hooks)

A PTY proxy sits between your terminal and shell, normally transparent
Claude Code hooks send signals when thinking starts/stops
On SIGUSR1: switch to alternate screen, launch game
On SIGUSR2: leave alternate screen, SIGWINCH triggers Claude to redraw
The terminal's alt screen buffer preserves Claude's main screen perfectly

Games

Game	Controls	Description
Flappy Bird	Space/W to flap	Dodge pipes through a colorful sky with clouds and textured ground
Snake	WASD/Arrows	Eat food, grow longer — gradient-colored body with directional head and corner pieces
Pong	W/S or Up/Down	Single-player vs AI, angle-based physics, first to 5 wins
Volfied	WASD/Arrows	Claim territory by drawing lines — avoid enemies, fill 75% to advance

All games: **Ctrl-C** to interrupt Claude and exit game, **R** to restart after game over.

Game state persists between thinking sessions — your score carries over until game over.

Volfied details

Inspired by the classic Volfied/Qix arcade game. Move along borders freely, venture into unclaimed territory to draw lines and capture area. Features:

3 enemy types: bouncers (diagonal movement), chasers (target your trail), patrollers (walk the border)
Level progression: difficulty scales with more/faster enemies each level
Trail timeout: complete your cut before the timer runs out (gets shorter each level)
Quadratic scoring: bigger fills earn exponentially more points
Lives system: 3 lives to start, earn extras on level completion (max 5)
Invulnerability frames: brief prot