Mastodawn

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?

@ajroach42 while not ssh/telnet, I guess the web browser strategy games of the late 90s/early 00s are probably modern things fairly close in concept?

similarly, I guess, things like Urban Dead

@theoutrider Probably, yeah, but they won't work for the situation in which I find myself currently.

@ajroach42 ah, fair, I was assuming you were looking out of interest rather than for practical reasons :D

various roguelikes? DCSS is very good and modern

@ajroach42 though I guess they're not multi-player things outside of maybe shared highscore tables...

@theoutrider Yeah, DCSS has been mentioned here. Not actually mulitplayer, but has a shared leader board.

I run a shared server, that lots of people SSH into, with a message board and email and stuff (kind of a tilde.club thing?)

and I want to be able to play games with them.

@theoutrider DCSS looks really neat, though. I'll be putting it on for sure.

@ajroach42 DCSS goes a little bit beyond the shared leaderboards as well, in that dead characters can spawn as enemies in newer games

@theoutrider Yeah, that too! Still, not exactly multiplayer, but super neat.

I'm glad that such a thing exists.

@ajroach42 be great if you could make a writeup of what you find, I'd certainly be interested to see what exists in the space these days

@theoutrider :-D I plan on it.

So far, I've had more misses than hits, though.

I don't have the time right now,but eventually I may write my own.