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What kind of open source linux terminal games do you like?

My favorites:

1. Ascii Patrol - http://ascii-patrol.com/ Ascii Patrol is an ASCII game project. It was inspired by Moon Patrol - old good game.
2. ASCIIpOrtal - https://github.com/cymonsgames/ASCIIpOrtal ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by valve's Portal.
3. MyMan - https://myman.sourceforge.io/ MyMan is a text-mode videogame inspired by Namco's Pac-Man. Best version of Pac-man for me.
4. Conix - https://bitbucket.org/garnold/conix/ Conix is a console-based Xonix clone.
5. Curse of War - http://a-nikolaev.github.io/curseofwar/ Curse of War is a fast-paced action strategy game.
6. Robot Finds Kitten - http://robotfindskitten.org/ Best ASCII walking simulator. :-)

Resources:

1. https://ttygames.wordpress.com/
2. https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-ttygames
3. https://libregamewiki.org/Category:ASCII_games
4. https://inconsolation.wordpress.com Need to dig to find games
5. https://www.youtube.com/user/livibetter/videos
6. http://zenway.ru/tag/ASCII Warning! Russian language. Please use google translator.
7. http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?tit ... like_games Need to dig to find opensource linux games

Thanks for making this list!

Are there any good game-play videos that would be a good show-case?

If you don't mind we could make a summary post out of it on our FreeGamer blog ("best open-source ASCII games" type blog post always get a lot of interest).

There's always roguelikes. I just recently got into the genre so I mostly stick to simple ones like Boohu (quite fun and beautiful) for now but I often see the following recommended that work in ASCII/terminal:
DRL aka DoomRL Doom as a roguelike
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead post-apocalyptic sandbox

Then there's the classics of course, like:
Angband
NetHack
and of course the original Rogue, not sure if that has a website but it should be in your package manager.

I like starlanes:
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes.html
There were several BASIC versions. The link above is to a forked version in C that works with PDCurses or ncurses.

BSDgames has some interesting programs:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/bsdgames

The inconsolation link that was mentioned is a great resource for console based programs. There are also some console based programs mixed in with the reviews or other lightweight programs at https://kmandla.wordpress.com/ Both blogs are by the same author.

Another good resource for finding console applications including games was: http://www.jaredandcoralee.com/CLIapps.html
The site appears to be down, but it may still be accessible from the Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/

GearHead 1 and 2 had ASCII version http://www.gearheadrpg.com/

Awesome topic, thank you for sharing these resources. I always wanted to look into these but never really got into it. I remember playing greed, which was pretty addictive.

I think a lot of these should be added to Libregamewiki to help people discover them.

Julius {l Wrote}:Are there any good game-play videos that would be a good show-case?

I dont know. The channel is not mine. Channel contain only very short videos (1 min). One video - one game.

Julius {l Wrote}:If you don't mind we could make a summary post out of it on our FreeGamer blog ("best open-source ASCII games" type blog post always get a lot of interest).

Great idea.

Sockstah

Yes, roguelikes are good too. I like small roguelike games (not major like angband, adom etc). Now I am making a list of such games. I'm digging in roguebasin.com

My unfinished list of opensource roguelikes for linux terminal:

1. Alan's Psychedelic Journey - http://exador.sourceforge.net/apj.html lang - c license - bsd
2. Avanor - http://avanor.sourceforge.net/ lang - c++ and lua license - GNU GPLv2
3. City of the Condemned - https://github.com/tapio/cotc/ lang - c++ license - MIT
4. CryptRover - https://code.google.com/archive/p/cryptrover/ lang - c license - GNU GPLv3
??? 5. Encircled - http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Encircled lang - c++ license - unlicensed
https://web.archive.org/web/20150106155 ... ircled.zip
6. Fatherhood - http://www.zincland.com/7drl/fatherhood/ lang - c++ license - BSD
7. The Hack of Life - https://github.com/isharacomix/hack-of-life lang - c license - GNU GPLv3
8. Martin's Dungeon Bash - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mpre ... index.html lang - c lisence - BSD
??? 9. Mutant Aliens! - https://github.com/essarrdee/mutantaliens lang - с++ license - unlicensed
??? 10. Rook - http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Rook lang - c license - unlicensed
https://web.archive.org/web/20140413090 ... l-release/

lm

Big thanks for links!

drummyfish {l Wrote}:I think a lot of these should be added to Libregamewiki to help people discover them.

Good idea. My English is very bad. Therefore, I can not do it.

I played a lot of Moria and later Angband. A lot of the rogue likes you list seem to be 7 day roguelike challenge creations. I always wanted to try to do that.

Small related article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/ ... date.13789

I found cool project. License MIT. A console-based TD game engine written in C++ . Prototype looks really cool.

https://github.com/Blokatt/fiTD

Hi again my ASCII gamers. I found two rare cool games.

1. PAG (Platform Arcade Game). I found this game in The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc). Simple ncurses-based platform game with jumps, enemies, stairs and checkpoints. Make levels, then play with them. Game have some maps and written in C. I not found license file (Its bad).

http://pkgsrc.se/games/pag

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2. Quix. Qix, Xonix-like game for *nix systems. Really oldschool game from 80s (Version 2.0, 25 September 1986). Game written in C. License - probably public domain.


https://github.com/SirWumpus/quix

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 Are you so utterly mad as to have another game? (y/n)



See you later my ASCII gamers. And now play it and enjoy it. :-)

A personal favourite of mine (along with the already mentioned Crypto Rover) is Scroll, by Joey Hess. Bite sized, novel idea, clean interface.

Now this topic is updated. I want to ask about Empire game. I don't know play it. And it seems awesome more or less as terminal version of Advance wars.

Here's a party favorite (my friends and I play it all the time), it's great for 1-7 players, I coded it myself, has artificial intelligence, ANSI color: https://github.com/servusDei2018/Mafia-Werewolf

It is written in Python and has no dependencies beyond the standard library.

Hi, ascii lovers. ^__^ Again me. I want to show some good games for linux terminal. Not well-known like from distro's repo.

1. astervoid - well-looking and very polished asteroids-like game. License - GPL 3.0



https://github.com/matth-love/astervoid

2. morpion solitaire - Implementation paper and pencil game that have many names: join five, Morpion solitaire, Cross 'n' Lines and Line Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_Five). License - MIT



https://github.com/gre/morpion-solitaire

3. clines and consolines - two implemetation old russian game color lines. It's very addictive casual gameplay like tetris or mach-3.



https://github.com/veselov/clines License - GPL 2.0



https://github.com/x1o/consolines License - MIT

4. terminal gem match and behacked - two Bejeweled-like games. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejeweled). Another cool casual game.



https://github.com/ATBennett/terminal_gem_match License - GPL 3.0



https://github.com/Pentachoron-Labs/Behacked License - public domain

5. Vexed_ascII - Implemetation of Palm game Vexed. (http://vexed.sourceforge.net/)



https://github.com/pyrotank41/Vexed_ascII License - MIT

Also, you may check out my github's profile. I starred only ascii games. https://github.com/Domosed-gamin?tab=stars

Proxima 5 is a cool game made in Go, although it is relatively unfinished. It last saw development in 2016.

There are two gameplay videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiOPBBM7-Xc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNxKTCmY_bQ

2 parts video of ascii games gameplay. Good letsplay videos for ascii lovers. Enjoy, guys.

https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/5d7c0a ... 1f3221377b

https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/24f7e1 ... 8b9fc9be74

Anyone love ascii games like me? ^___^

One good guy make awesome collection of ascii games called New BSD Games. It contain 17 games:

1. battleship - well-known game. You know it.
2. checkers - just checkers. Or just Draughts if you from England. :-)
3. darrt - interesting mix of darts and typing game.
4. fifteen - well-known puzzle game. When I was kid, I had soviet plastic physical copy of this game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle
5. fisher - ascii fishing simulator game.
6. jewels - fall down tile game like Columns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columns_(video_game)
7. memoblocks - tile-based concentration game, that improve your memory.
8. miketron - variation of snake game.
9. mines - minesweeper.
10. muncher - snake-like game. Only our hero is not snake. It is muncher "r". Maybe "r" means rat. I don't know.
11. pipes - variation of Pipe Mania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Mania
12. rabbithole - maze game. Rabbit want eat carrots and find exit from labirinth.
13. redsquare - Conway's Game of Life, but more playable.
14. reversi - implementation of well-known board game same name.
15. snakeduel - tron-like game versus computer bot. Hard game.
16. sos - implementation of paper and pencil game called same name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS_(game)
17. sudoku - implementation well-known puzzle game.

You can see screenshots each game on imgur.com - https://imgur.com/a/OWkg8AD/

Source - https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames

Loving the nbsdgames collection, thank you very much suckless + CC0 <3

Interesting, nobody mentioned open-adventure yet, maintained by the same ESR as vms-empire.

And also there's moon-buggy (available on most distros, deb).


Bests

Awesome small collection of puzzle games (contains 3 games).

https://github.com/dead-end/nuzzle

Personally, I love text adventures.
I idiolized The Guild of Thieves when I was a child. The idea of having a game with a rich story was simply wonderful!

Unfortunately, my english was not good enough to play them back then, so I had to wait until I was an adult.
In the end, I wrote my very own interpreter for the games, the ultimate fan-fiction, if you will.

Oh, and I set up a server, where you can play online: http://magneticscrolls.net
Or just type in

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ssh -p 8080 -l magnetic magneticscrolls.net