Looking for the name of an old BBS Door game
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Valmorian · 2018-04-18 01:52

I tried posting on /r/TOMT but they directed me here.  I hope someone
can help!

I'm looking for the name of an old and apparently rare BBS door game.
The game was a medieval warfare style game with an ANSI/ASCII style
map that had terrain.  The map was multiple screens wide/long and so
could scroll potentially page by page in each direction.

The defining feature of this game is that all military units were
chess pieces.  You could move knights, pawns, bishops, etc in expected
ways across various terrain but mountains were impassible.  As a door
game each player obviously had a limited number of actions/moves they
could take each day.

That's all I can remember about it... anyone have any ideas what it
was?

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mro_1337 · 2018-04-18 02:01

maybe spider gates? dont know about the chess pieces

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Valmorian · 2018-04-18 02:02

> spider gates

Looks neat, but definitely not it. :)

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UnaClocker · 2018-04-18 03:53

There was a ton of stuff lost from the BBS era. I myself wrote a dozen
doorgames. Only two made it into the archives. The source code I
opened up for one of them didn’t make it. There’s a lot of others that
are just gone, now.

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Valmorian · 2018-04-18 04:10

Yeah, I wrote a few myself.  It's a pity I will likely never find out
about this one.

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mro_1337 · 2018-04-20 17:07

was it software specific? like for wildcat! or worldgroup