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#1 2008-11-16 23:01:23

cardinals_fan
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CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

I just found greed, a little gem of a CLI game.  Very addictive!  What are your favorite lightweight CLI games?


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#2 2008-11-16 23:49:09

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

- Nethack!
- ADOM
- The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Zork


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#3 2008-11-17 00:10:17

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

Nethack... no.  Just no.  Zork is always fun.

EDIT: Zork is considerably less fun than I remembered.   I don't like role-playing (except this, of course).

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#4 2008-11-17 01:16:22

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

alleytris. Should be possible on any tetris clone with adjustable amount of columns (set to 4)

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#5 2008-11-17 10:29:20

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

cardinals_fan wrote:

Nethack... no.  Just no.

Blasphemy!


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#6 2008-11-17 13:49:53

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

Well, I play MUDs smile But since you're not on RPG it's unlikely you'd like them.

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#7 2008-11-17 21:20:37

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

Hello,
want to know any chess front end  that can be displayed in cli using ncurses or just like that?
vitetris is a nice tetris game that can be played  in full screen in cli.
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#8 2008-11-17 21:22:58

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

The Zork trilogy was so much freakin' fun. I played Zork I on my friends Apple II, then I played II and III on my Commodore 64. Glorious!

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#9 2008-11-17 22:41:34

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

ToME, the World's Most Bloated Angband Variant (TM).

(Okay, not really minimal, but fun and addictive.)

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#10 2008-11-18 00:37:46

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

I'm completely addicted to greed now smile

Cboard is a ncurses chess interface, but I never got it working properly.


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#11 2008-11-20 20:12:41

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

I just found Privateer: Ascii Sector, not sure it's so lightweight (it's not even that CLI tongue), but it seems quite promising big_smile


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#12 2008-11-20 21:06:39

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

nethack of course smile
i used to play moon-buggy sometimes its an ascii clone of moon patrol and is pretty good, and a downhill ski one that kinda sucked but can't remember its name.

edit
just tried greed, reminds me of the motorcycle part in the tron arcade game kind of.

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#13 2008-11-21 10:41:33

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

finferflu wrote:

I just found Privateer: Ascii Sector, not sure it's so lightweight (it's not even that CLI tongue), but it seems quite promising big_smile

Holy crap! I'm installing it right away!

EDIT: Oh man, it kicks ass! But where's the source ? sad

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#14 2008-11-21 10:59:42

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

My favorite is typespeed. big_smile Really simple but challenging.

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#15 2008-11-21 12:37:24

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

I'll take this time to plug some of my aur packages:

nsudoku
gnushogi -- Also avilable from the arch-games repo.

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#16 2008-11-21 13:37:37

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

moljac024 wrote:

EDIT: Oh man, it kicks ass! But where's the source ? sad

I don't think it's open source...


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#17 2008-11-21 13:49:21

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

finferflu wrote:
moljac024 wrote:

EDIT: Oh man, it kicks ass! But where's the source ? sad

I don't think it's open source...

Not open source?
That's not good of course!
Use the force and kick out that thing without remorse!


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#18 2008-11-21 14:41:21

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

Dieter@be wrote:
finferflu wrote:
moljac024 wrote:

EDIT: Oh man, it kicks ass! But where's the source ? sad

I don't think it's open source...

Not open source?
That's not good of course!
Use the force and kick out that thing without remorse!

It seems to be written in FreePascal.
Would be really fun to see the source, but the author has said that it will never be open-source as long as he is developing it hmm


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#19 2008-11-21 17:27:54

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

moljac024 wrote:
Dieter@be wrote:
finferflu wrote:

I don't think it's open source...

Not open source?
That's not good of course!
Use the force and kick out that thing without remorse!

It seems to be written in FreePascal.
Would be really fun to see the source, but the author has said that it will never be open-source as long as he is developing it hmm

Why!?

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#20 2008-11-21 17:32:38

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Re: CLI games for the obsessive minimalist

Ranguvar wrote:
moljac024 wrote:
Dieter@be wrote:

Not open source?
That's not good of course!
Use the force and kick out that thing without remorse!

It seems to be written in FreePascal.
Would be really fun to see the source, but the author has said that it will never be open-source as long as he is developing it hmm

Why!?

I don't know. It's just something I managed to read on the official forum before my eyes began to bleed.


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