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12 pointsdylanvee12 comments

Today I'm launching a little side project of mine. I'm striving for a sublimely simple user experience with this one: log in with your GitHub account and with one click you can launch a terminal window and instantly get matched up with another hacker for a head-to-head game. Thanks to the magic of SSH, you don't have to install a thing. It's pretty fun and feels social like IRC, not social like a Facebook Timeline-enabled Flash game.

I hope you have as much fun using Gitris as I did developing it, and I'd love your feedback.

This is an amazing quote: "Social like IRC, not social like a Facebook Timeline-enabled Flash game."

p.s. You can bet I'll be adding that to my .plan file ;)

This is just far too cool. And creative too. I haven't really thought of using SSH for games.

It would be cool if X11/windowing/sharing code was just as simple as SSH. Then we could trivially do networked video games where someone hosts. That would be... neato.

Hi dylanvee, and thanks for Gitris - it's awesome. I got it hooked up in my bash, and I will probably play this a lot. However, I think it would be awesome if you did keep track of stats/scores and made it visible thru gitris.com or what not. Main reason: Bragging Rights. That would be awesome. Thx.

Any chance of this being open sourced?

Yes, perhaps.

This is awesome!

I am jes, just played a game against you.

Very cool, but unfortunately very laggy for me.

It would be cool if it were possible to copy and paste the username rather than having to type it out.

Thanks! The server is in EC2's Oregon region, so it'll be laggy if you're very far from there. Didn't stop you from beating me though...

And you don't have to type in the username, you can click the button and it should open a new SSH session for you.

On a mac, I don't use the default terminal. I had to click the button, and then copy the protocol from the dialog box that popped up asking if it was okay to start terminal.app.

Could you please make the button text selectable? It would make the experience easier for people to get into (conversion_rate++)

Other than that, I love this. Thanks for it.

That's a really good idea, thank you.

The line count shown in the centre console is a little useless.

I find myself losing despite having the most lines just because my opponent gets the most tetrises.

Good game, incredibly laggy for my location.

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