使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 npush

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• npush

项目历史

The official project page describes the game loop: collect all gold, reach the exit, move around rocks, use dynamite, and control multiple player characters on the same screen. It also states that nPush is terminal-based, uses ncurses for its interface, is written in C++, and is licensed under GPL version 2 or later.

Public project history is sparse after the 0.7 release. The project remains packaged in Homebrew and Nix, but there is not enough source-backed evidence to claim a broad community or active long-term development history.

采用历史

nPush appears to be adopted mainly as a niche Unix terminal game and preservation-friendly package rather than a widely used game platform. Homebrew analytics reported 13 formula installs over its 365-day window and 3 installs over its 30-day window.

使用方式

Users run npush directly in a terminal. Its package-nerd appeal is that it is a tiny ncurses game: easy to build, easy to package, and representative of the kind of lightweight console puzzle program that survives through distro ports and formulae.

For game players, the practical distinction from plain Sokoban is the mix of rock/dynamite mechanics and multiple controllable characters. For packagers, the notable traits are C++, ncurses, a small tarball, and a stable upstream release archive.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

nPush is not historically significant at ecosystem scale, but it is a good example of the long tail of SourceForge-era terminal games that remain available through modern package managers.

时间线

• 2008-05-20: SourceForge project metadata records nPush creation.
• 2008-07-11: SourceForge files page identifies npush-0.7.tgz as the latest release.
• 2026 formula data: Homebrew formula lists stable version 0.7.

Related projects

• Sokoban
• Boulder Dash
• ncurses

来源

• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/npush.json
• https://npush.sourceforge.net/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/npush/files/
• https://sourceforge.net/rest/p/npush