Hello,

Sorry if this is a bit of a strange request. I'm guessing this forum likely gets requests for 3D libraries. But I'm wanting to write a game with a graphical style similar to that of Dwarf Fortress, Nethack, etc. I need a library / way of rendering a Window with 2D monospace text in it, preferably with colors as well. It must be cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OSX) and should hopefully be able to interface with the Vala programming language, although this is not necessary.

For reference, I'm coming from Python. Python had a library know as pygame, which had a sub-library called pygcurses (a cross-platform ncurses clone using SDL). Here's a link to it for reference: http://inventwithpython.com/pygcurse/. If something like this existed for a compiler language like C++ / Vala, that would be brilliant. Unfortunately, various searches have brought up nothing.

I have been told that OpenGL + Pango (http://www.pango.org/) may be able to do it, but I'm not sure how I would go about this.

Thanks,

Zesterer.