Comment by jstimpfle

If you just make a TUI-style app in graphics mode, is it really that much harder? Granted, there's a bit of boilerplate for setting up a drawing context, and you might want to make your own minimalistic drawing framework (because windowing toolkits might be too much), but apart from that I'm not sure it's hard. And you even get image display for free! Plus an easy upgrade path for example for minimal mousing, keyboard combinations, etc.