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Collection of Unix ASCII Games
- albertzeyer 5y agoI liked ASCII portal a lot. https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvxDk2sAZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvxDk2sAZg
- ineedasername 5y agoIt needs a pure green terminal mode to ensure people don't know I'm playing a game at work.
- ForOldHack 5y agoYou mean Green on black.
- ineedasername 5y agoOr amber. My Uni library used amber terminals, some computer labs had green. So it's all fun nostalgia. While these days I wonder if a tween watching The Matrix for the first time has any idea why the scrolling green characters have anything to do with computers given the sun had mostly set on terminals as a primary interface by 1999.
- kmstout 5y agoIt could also use scan lines and the beautiful effects of glowing phosphor. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
- kingcharles 5y agoOh god. That's awesome. That's my childhood right there.
- hulitu 5y agosetterm ?
- ineedasername 5y agoI'm not sure if it would be playable in one color or need tweaks to the characters used first. I do know that terminal environments a relevant to my work environment and so answering this question and definitely falls on under "professional development" for today's work queue.
- jeppesen-io 5y agoThanks for the link!
- smusamashah 5y agoI wish the list had screenshots and platform information for all games.
- ForOldHack 5y agoThere used to be a GamesWiki, and it was good, but got polluted by bots, like almost all open wikis, most of which have long disappeared, or been locked down.
- jandrese 5y agoHmm, it's missing Ogre[1]. [1] http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/6/ogre http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/6/ogre
- dempedempe 5y agoThe "How to contribute" section at the very top in bold tells you how to contribute.
- DerekL 5y agoInteresting! I tried to write an Ogre game for my high school programming class in 1987. It was in Pascal, building and running on a TRS-80 Model 3. But it didn't have time to finish the display and interface, and I didn't even get to gameplay and AI.
- ineedasername 5y agoThe official ISO category for these is "Games that may be played openly in a workplace environment with a low detection probability of ignoring one's responsibility"
- ForOldHack 5y agoWe renamed 'Hack' to vi, so PS would hide it. I would think that most of the BASIC games were ported to UNIX, and the basic would be tic-tack-toe, Rogue, Hack, Nethack, Angband, Larn, Hunt the wumpus, Bagels, Adventure, cave ( or was that cc for colossal cave? ) Trek, Omega, VMS Empire ( Thank you Eric Raymond ),
- jeppesen-io 5y ago> emacs Actually it is not a game, but text editor. It includes a bunch of text games like chess, sokoban, pong etc I had no idea and kinda funny
- every 5y agoCame for the nethack and was not disappointed. Would only add: ssh nethack@hardfought.org...
- CPLX 5y agoWas pretty disappointed to click on Rogue, the most roguelike of rouguelike games, and find that the link is broken.
- Subsentient 5y agoI'll throw my Arkanoid/breakout clone written in C and ncurses into the mix. https://universe2.us/bricktick.html https://universe2.us/bricktick.html
- kingcharles 5y agoI wish I'd had this when I was in jail. I only had a command-line C# compiler and was trying to think of games I could make to teach the other detainees. In the end I just settled for teaching them how to code a text adventure.
- smbv 5y agoATC remains my favourite TTY game. The adrenaline rush when managing tens of planes, the tension keeping them all afloat, all very fun. I do not want to do this as my real job though.