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 ADVENT and Zork. Nethack.
I think there's a Linux version (or clone) of LORD out there.
Of course, the various MOO engines out there.
@drwho adventure and zork are more remotely multiplayer.
LORD will run in dosemu, but i need a BBS.
MOO engines are well and good; but I don't want to have to code up a map and npcs. If you've got one that comes prepopulated, I'd be onboard for that!
If I could find a Moo engine that came with a map and some NPCs I'd be thrilled.
I don't mind building new stuff/coding my own, as I have time, but I want there to be stuff for people to do before then.
Right now? 6 - 10, with room for growth.
I mean, in an ideal world It'd be a cybrepunk/Gibsonian setting, focused around hacking, etc.
But I'll take the traditional high fantasy, or a less traditional Discworld fantasy, or whatever I can actually install and run!
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