Andrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017

Hi! I'm looking for examples of mainframe games.

(That is, multiplayer games that are played by the users of a shared server over ssh/telnet.)

Linux BBS games would also work, I guess. Games can be turn based or real time.

MUDs fall in to this box, as do a few games in the bsd-games package.

Whatcha got?

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@ajroach42. hey, do games with leaderboarders and daily dungeons count, but not direct mp? I think dungeon crawl:stone soup is one, i know u can have a server setup w/ it, and i think ssh into it and play for the leaderboard
Aug 17, 2017 at 5:35pmWeb
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017
@goatmoat Leaderboard games totally count, especially if there's a way to run it so that it'll just show the leaderboard and exit (so that I can script something to display the leaderboard as part of the motd)
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@ajroach42. idk if there is, but DCSS is along the lines of a modern nethack. You might even be able to play the tiled/graphical version over ssh, i'm not sure. It's been awhile since i looked into it
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017

@goatmoat Looks like remote access to the tiled version is done through the web.

Still neat. I'll check it out.