🎮 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.

• 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.

• my personal Hamurabi clone (yep, the humble classic);
• written in shell script; requires Bash / Zsh / ksh.

• 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.

• coffeebreak roguelike in Python and curses;
• see in the writing section for how to make your own;

• 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

• native port of Lost in the Jungle with terminal support;
• two different versions with source code included.

• port of Space Cruiser Orion to the Linux console;
• native executable with source code included.

• short, surreal text adventure with a humorous twist ending;
• Inform 6 source code is included (and very clean).

• template for self-contained text adventures in Bash 4.

See also

And elsewhere:

Last modified on 9 September 2023.