arcade-statusline

Arcade Statusline for Claude Code

Turn your Claude Code status bar into a retro game. Two themes available: Pac-Man inspired (chase game) and Pikmin Bloom inspired (flower planting trail).

Themes

Pac-Man Inspired

Context window usage drives the character across the board, while rate limit ghosts chase from behind.

- Chase game -- Character position maps to context window usage; ghosts chase proportionally to rate limits
- Ghost room -- The 7-day ghost stays caged in a walled room when usage is under 50%, bouncing left and right
- Chomp animation -- Character toggles between open (ᗧ) and closed (●) mouth on each refresh
- Ghost animation -- Both ghosts alternate legs (ᗩ/ᗣ) in opposite phase
- Cherry at 95% -- A red cherry (ᐝ) marks the auto-compact threshold
- Game over -- When a rate limit hits 100%, the ghost catches the character and GAME OVER appears
- Effort badge -- Your effortLevel from ~/.claude/settings.json appears after the 5-hour rate limit; hidden during GAME OVER

Pikmin Bloom Inspired

A squad walks in place while a flower trail scrolls behind them. Using context plants flowers; idle time leaves footprints.

- Flower planting -- Every 15-minute slot gets a flower if you consumed context, or a dot (·) if idle
- Big flower cycle -- Every 8 slots (~2 hours), a big flower slot (🪻🌻🌷) appears with a seedling (🌱) waiting to bloom
- Pikmin animation -- 🔴🟡🔵 squad alternates order on each refresh
- Fruit on reset -- Rate limit reset times show as fruit (🍎🍊🍋🍇🍓🍑🫐) in future slots
- Rate limit aware -- Rate limit hit prevents flower planting for that slot
- Effort badge -- Your effortLevel from ~/.claude/settings.json appears before the bloom indicator; xhigh / max add a ⏩ marker; hidden when a rate limit is hit

Common

- Color-coded warnings --…