Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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in reply to lori • • •Have you investigated interactive fiction? The game that has stuck with me as a good introduction to the medium was Photopia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
There are likely many other on-ramps to text adventures, probably newer and better games, but I just thought that one had pretty colors 😉
1998 video game
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in reply to lori • • •XorCurses - github.com/jwm-art-net/XorCurs…
Greed - catb.org/~esr/greed/
CurseofWar - a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwa…
Liberal Crime Squad - lcs.wikidot.com/start
StarLanes - github.com/mmpub/StarLanes
chroma - level7.org.uk/chroma/
pokete - lxgr-linux.github.io/pokete/
There are a few different tetris, pacman and sokoban clones.
GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.
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in reply to lori • • •gitlab.com/esr/vms-empire
Games of No Time To Play
ctrl-c.clubcrab
in reply to lori • • •I believe old versions of Dwarf Fortress have an ncurses mode which runs in the terminal. Dont think its supported anymore on the steam/itch release though, sadly.
(I hope DF doesn't count as a roguelike or dungeon crawler 😀 )
lori
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in reply to lori • • •GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully.
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in reply to lori • • •bsdgames, but I wanted to specifically recommendhuntfrom there as a multiplayer shooter. Surprizingly fun for what it is. Only works in multiplayer though.lori
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in reply to lori • • •I think I have this in acceptable condition for someone else to try it... git.sr.ht/~rlonstein/wordwhiz-…
A rewrite of a little word tile game I first wrote in 2011 inspired by the Wordsmith game in my first Tivo.
~rlonstein/wordwhiz-cpp - A letter tile game in C++ inspired by the Tivo(R) Wordsmith game by Carl Haynes - sourcehut git
git.sr.htjoshie 🏳️🌈
in reply to lori • • •exceptionally cursed but: I once hacked a ncurses TUI display mode into a Gameboy emulator, using half-height unicode blocks to get 2 square-ish pixels per text character. worked badly, but worked nonetheless
unfortunately I don’t think I still have a copy I can share, but if you have the time and the know how it is both possible and very funny
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in reply to lori • • •21 Peerless ASCII Games - LinuxLinks
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in reply to lori • • •Games on tilde.town
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
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in reply to via unreachable • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to via unreachable • •@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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