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Collection of Unix ASCII Games

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Hmm, it's missing Ogre[1].

[1] http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/6/ogre

The "How to contribute" section at the very top in bold tells you how to contribute.

Interesting! 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.

I liked ASCII portal a lot. https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvxDk2sAZg

It needs a pure green terminal mode to ensure people don't know I'm playing a game at work.

You mean Green on black.

Or 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.

It could also use scan lines and the beautiful effects of glowing phosphor.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Oh god. That's awesome. That's my childhood right there.

setterm ?

I'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.

Thanks for the link!

I wish the list had screenshots and platform information for all games.

There 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.

The 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"

We 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 ),

Came for the nethack and was not disappointed. Would only add: ssh nethack@hardfought.org...

I 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.

ATC 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.

I'll throw my Arkanoid/breakout clone written in C and ncurses into the mix. https://universe2.us/bricktick.html

> 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

Was pretty disappointed to click on Rogue, the most roguelike of rouguelike games, and find that the link is broken.

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