AsciiAquarium in Go

A terminal-based ASCII aquarium animation written in Go.

Features

• Live animation of fish, bubbles, and plants.
• Color support (Green plants, Blue bubbles, Random colored fish).
• Large fish sprites.
• Vertical fish movement.
• Dynamic plant generation.
• Moving crab at the bottom.
• Graceful exit with status 0 on Ctrl+C (when run as binary).

How to Build and Run

Make sure you have Go installed.

Option 1: Run directly using go run

go run main.go

Note: Exiting with Ctrl+C might return an exit status of 1 because go run handles the signal.

Option 2: Build and run the binary (Recommended)

Building the binary ensures that the application returns an exit status of 0 when stopped with Ctrl+C.

go build
./asciiaquarium

To stop the animation, press Ctrl+C.