Which BBS game could I use for a personal coding project (bridge
IRC/BBS)?
reddit / bbs

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absalom29 · 2020-04-12 15:50

Hi,

being the IRC guy from the https://xkcd.com/1782/ story, I truly enjoy
some
games like IdleRPG and even more MultiRPG http://idlerpg.org/ .

As a personal lockdown project, I would try to code some BBS/IRC
bridge
with the following ideas in mind.

I actually want to have somme BBS running; I don't want to rewrite or
adapt
the game. Knowing that you are playing on a true BBS game would be
part of
the game experience. Thus, I would like to write a bridge for a
specific
game - by converting on-the-fly between heterogeneous event types.

I don't want to match the exact display of the BBS game: of course,
ANSI
would be discarded, as well as menus which would have to be turned
into
some other types of commands. Furthermore, my project would emphasis
all
events becoming publicly displayed on the channel of the game (of
course
some specific ones could be sent by private messages as well if
required).

That being said, I would like to start from the most favorable game,
and
this is what I am asking for here. Which BBS game would be the easiest
to
use for my purpose in regards to:

  * one big menu is OK, but I would like to avoid sub-menus,
especially
    in quests: performing an action shouldn't pop-up new choices ;
    ideally, the format of the events should be stable: if you want
    to attack something, you have a given result with stats, no
unexpected
    sub-choice;
  * most of the gameplay should fit in small sequential events (most
of them
    being the results of actions), and events should be short (eg:
"Tom
    has attacked a lizzard and won; he has lost 2HP and discovered 4
gold
    coins"); that would be the most important part of the game and I
would
    like to make a stream of all these events in the public channel;
  * of course, the game has to be multiplayer, this is a major
requirement.

Which BBS game could more or less suit my needs? Thank you by advance.

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wndrbr3d · 2020-04-15 12:13

I don't know a game off hand -- but it'd have to be one from a multi-
line board software like WildCat, TBBS, VBBS, or WG/MBBS. Not
something that was a door but a game/concept that was designed for
real-time interaction of multiple users.