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Comment by joshmillard | Hacker News Reader

It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just generally being great people in a nice place.

I got inspired yesterday and wrote us up our own custom low-rent version of Flappy Bird:

http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/

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Decided we needed an arcade page for all the sweet games:

http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/games.html

Where's adventure or empire?

Early days yet; I'm looking forward to folks getting all kinds of stuff either installed or written from scratch.

It's called Helicopter :-(

http://www.helicopter-game.org/ :)

Helicopter had "hold to increase elevation" rather than "tap to fly up"... and was a MUCH better game for it.

That is one brutal Flappy Bird remix Josh - it's even worse than the original!

No point in making an easy one, I reckon!

Though I did spend about fifteen minutes working on a pure command-line turn-based version called Roguey Bird a few months ago before realizing I didn't actually feel like spending more than fifteen minutes on it at the time.

In the interest of truly returning to the days of Nintendo Power hijinks, I have added a high score table that is powered by people sending me screenshots of their high scores.

I love that very quickly my goal was to score a single point. And then I did and it showed my high score! Sweet, I got high score I can quit now...

Sorry to tell you that, at least as far as I can tell, that's a personal high score.

I could only get as high as 14 before getting bored and fiddling with the source code.

It's a little bit of the spirit of The Well, and some USENET/BBS to boot. I think this is really missing from the modern web, so I cheer you on! It is a toast-worthy activity, your little blip on the horizon ..

I scored 8. Must have got lucky!

it obviously needs a tilde clicker too :-)

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