🎮 Games for Linux and such

> So much fun can be had with a scripting language and a terminal emulator.

Some of these were meant as prototypes; others were ports, made for learning. They all turned out fine games anyway and deserve to be here. There just wasn't any "here" for them until now.

Lost in the Jungle

kind of an Oregon Trail-style game? idk;

originally adapted from an old book of Basic games for a jam;

this version is made in Lua 5.x for the command line.

Land/Lord

my personal Hamurabi clone (yep, the humble classic);

written in shell script; requires Bash / Zsh / ksh.

Space Cruiser Orion

a Trek game with the serial numbers filed off;

started as a prototype for a graphical version, was worth keeping;

runs in Python 2.7 or 3.3+ with the cmd module.

Tomb of the Snake

coffeebreak roguelike in Python and curses;

see in the writing section for how to make your own;

Glittering Light

minimal rogue-lite prototype cut out of Tomb of the Snake;

ended up a graphical game with many versions and even a sequel.

In more depth

Jungle TT

native port of Lost in the Jungle with terminal support;

two different versions with source code included.

Orion TT

port of Space Cruiser Orion to the Linux console;

native executable with source code included.

Secret of the Starry Depths

short, surreal text adventure with a humorous twist ending;

Inform 6 source code is included (and very clean).

SHTAP the Shell Text Adventure Player

template for self-contained text adventures in Bash 4.

See also

No Time To Play homepage

Writing about games and more

Small things without a better home

And elsewhere:

even more awesome TTY games

Last modified on 9 September 2023.