Hello I thought that I was working around a local implementation of ncurses, but now I am convinced that there is a local bug, which I filed a report against. See issue 54607. [1] [1]: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54607 Assuming that the bug will be fixed, there is no need for the snippet which I proposed in previous patches. I attach a new patch to add robotfindskitten, which is my offer in place of previous patches. Meanwhile, even with that bug not being fixed, robotfindskitten is still playable. It is just monochrome, which is a mode natively supported by the game design. Roman