[HN Gopher] Best command-line-only video games (2019)
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Best command-line-only video games (2019)
Author : indigodaddy
Score : 72 points
Date : 2022-09-16 05:07 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| markus_zhang wrote:
| I'm wondering if it's possible to run graphics games in terminal
| as in DOS?
| emmanueloga_ wrote:
| There's sixel [0] to display pics in text terminals. Also
| apparently the kitty terminal has a custom protocol to blit
| graphics on text terminals too [1].
|
| There's a library with some impressive demos called "notcurses"
| if you are curious what kind of graphics can be displayed in a
| terminal ... the author uploaded some demos to YT showing the
| capabilities. It's been discussed in HN a bunch of times [2].
|
| 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
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| 1: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/
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| 2: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses -
| https://hn.algolia.com/?q=notcurses
| pyuser583 wrote:
| It's been way too long since I've been killed by a grue.
| huydotnet wrote:
| Where's Nethack, DCSS???
| axiolite wrote:
| Omitted MyMan, a Pacman clone:
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| https://myman.sourceforge.io/
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| On Fedora just: dnf install myman
| remoquete wrote:
| ADOM, of course.
| lelandfe wrote:
| > _Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead... The visuals may be incredibly
| simple, but the gameplay is deep and open-ended_
|
| Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead also has a tiles mode that is actually
| pretty great. The community has done some amazing work:
| https://cataclysmdda.org/
| guerby wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)
|
| And Zangband :)
| programd wrote:
| I'm going to hijack this thread and mention the modern spiritual
| cousin of terminal games (but not really a terminal command line
| game at all) "Caves of Qud"
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| https://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud
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| It's like Nethack, only weirder. In a good way. Don't let the
| Early Access label fool you. It's been around for seven years
| already and is highly polished, and getting weirder all the time.
| In a good way.
| dllthomas wrote:
| Nitpick, maybe, but I think it's worth maintaining a distinction
| between "terminal (or terminal emulator)" and "shell (or command
| line)".
|
| From a skim, these seem like games that run in the terminal
| usually spawned from a shell, but that is not the same thing as
| being "run entirely in your Linux shell."
|
| For the headline itself I think IF with a parser counts as
| "command line only", though it still doesn't run in your shell.
|
| I don't know of any games that run "in your shell" but a good
| example of the distinction is that mutt and pine run in a
| terminal, but nmh actually runs in the shell (not in the sense of
| processes but in the sense that the shell is what I am using to
| string together actions when I use nmh).
| catern wrote:
| Yes, I came here to say this, these are not command line games.
|
| I'm tempted to make some kind of gimmick website or Twitter
| account, "Not Command Line", which posts examples of this
| confusion...
| emmanueloga_ wrote:
| Agreed... by nature a "command line game" would have to be turn
| oriented, I think. I was curious what kind of games where going
| to be linked here. It seems is mostly games that run on "text
| mode" on a terminal, as opposed to turn based games using the
| command line as UI.
|
| Counter example: command line tetris! [0]. Although... still
| gives the player the advantage of "freezing time" on every move
| :-).
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| 0: https://github.com/mattbierner/Super-Template-Tetris
| dllthomas wrote:
| It doesn't need to be turn based, though it does need
| relatively self contained actions and avoiding unfortunate
| race conditions could be tricky.
|
| I once made a shell driven instant messaging (libpurple)
| client that could serve as a point of reference - incoming
| messages were reported with PROMPT_COMMAND, and reply would
| send a message to the sender of the last message reported
| rather than the last message received.
| taviso wrote:
| I can't believe it didn't mention my favorite, asciipOrtal
| MCrekt wrote:
| Apsis Online - https://massivelyop.com/2022/01/10/whatever-
| happened-to-mult...
| kerblang wrote:
| If you want a game you can play at a leisurely pace, robots:
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| https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/man/robots
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Not sure it fits whatever definition is being used here but
| Cogmind is pretty amazing.
| guerby wrote:
| Not command line but I used to play it at my university in the
| nineties on Unix machines (and hacked /tmp files to create
| powerful artefacts) :
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(1992_video_game)
|
| Some of the contributed levels are ... a map of my university and
| some monsters were teachers at the time :)
| dusted wrote:
| Is there a command-line version of dwarf fortress? Because the
| default version, though text-based is certainly not command-line
| compatible.
| Vvector wrote:
| DF is noted in the article
| salted-fry wrote:
| On Linux/macos, you can enable terminal output by setting
| PRINT_MODE:TEXT in init.txt
| Corazoor wrote:
| Yes! The game itself supports [PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in the ini.
| Depending on the version you might need a virtual x server to
| trick the game into starting though.
|
| Used that to run it via wine + quemu on my android phone, at a
| whopping 5fps at embark. Didn't play for long, but was totally
| worth it!
| anthk wrote:
| Meh. No Nethack/Slashem, no DCSS, no BSDGames, no IF game beyond
| Zork such as Anchorhead or Spider and Web...
| kunwon1 wrote:
| I came here looking for DCSS. Anyone who likes roguelikes
| should take a look at it, if they haven't.
|
| It's actively developed, so you can play it once, come back a
| year later, and there will probably be new things to try.
|
| There's an active community, you can play over SSH with ASCII
| or over a webapp with tilesets or you can run it standalone on
| your PC.
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| Magic, extremely varied gods that favor you with powers for
| your devotions (these can have a drastic impact on playstyle),
| huge variety of classes... I could go on.
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