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SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH

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This made me nostalgic for GLTron. After a round of that, I decided to look for a more up-to-date lightcycle game but, surprisingly, there aren't any that capture the look of the 80's Tron movie with a similar level of faithfulness.

Armagetron was roughly contemporary with GLTron, but has a zoomed out perspective that doesn't capture the claustrophobic feeling of not knowing what's on the other side of that trail you're next to. There are also games based on the lightcycle sequences from the newer TRON movies. I have nothing against them, but they're not the same thing.

Seems like an underserved audience might possibly exist for this sort of thing.

This brought back memories - GLTron was fantastic. It was always either that or TuxRacer that would get fired up after finally getting my ATI drivers sorted out on whatever distro I was playing with at the time.

Looks like the last release was in 2016, which is a lot more recent than I expected. I wonder if we could dust it off and get a build?

Close field of view really changes things

Long ago I played an online tron-line, Cubes, where it was first person perspective 3d (could travel in 6 directions) the extra dimension of space still got claustrophobic

This was created by Zach Latta, who runs an awesome non profit called Hack Club that produces some of the top high school technical talent through community coding clubs. Highly encourage you donate to Hack Club!

Hack Club is amazing! I've gotten so many amazing opportunities to build stuff and help out with events. I got to build and run waka.hackclub.com (selfhosted wakatime backend) and at its peak we got over 21 thousand kids tracking over a quarter million hours in the software i built. Crazy experience. Getting to talk and interact with other techy teens is the best part about it though; we have a massive slack which generates the best techy conversations I typically have on a day to day basis.

[source i'm a teenager in hackclub]

Oh this brings memories of the hours I spent playing Armagetron years ago. I wonder if it still has active player base?

Edit: played for a while, it's pretty fun. However sometimes you die just because another player spawns right in front of you which is pretty frustrating as there is nothing you can do. I would suggest adding some blinking dot that will warn a new player is about to spawn at some location.

I was thinking this, too. Like maybe a few seconds of X flashing where you'll spawn next.

Hell yeah that was fun. 174, high of 185 in that session. But never got close to the 174 which was when I wasn't aware of what I was doing. The game played better without me, I think. Like when I get confused in a fighting game and somehow do better then. LOL.

Nice project!

I'm curious how this works under the hood, and how the resource consumption differs from just serving text via curl... Interesting. Realtime input and play!

I hope that riding next to a track is faster. It is crucial element of the gameplay as it make second player faster than the leader.

A lot of fun, my highscore was 46. :)

Now someone do SSHnake :) edit: that was quick https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gaurav-gosain/sshnake

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