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counterfeit-monkey
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Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/releases
If you don't want to install a parser on your computer, you can play it online by putting the link to the .gblorb file into https://iplayif.com/ I.e. https://iplayif.com/?story=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fi7%2Fc...
Modern games are generally going to be more approachable than old ones. Tastes have changed considerably. In the days when you couldn't pull up a walkthrough in a few seconds, taking days to think of the next step was part of the fun, and just getting permanently stuck at some point was fairly common. Also, letting the player keep going even after they have done something to make the game unwinnable is now considered very uncool. Navigation is much less tedious these days as well, fast travel for example, although the exact mechanics depend on the game.
And that's not mentioning the amount of CPU and RAM available, not only for the game's runtime, but also for tools like I7 (which was used to write Counterfeit Monkey).
For an quicker introduction to modern "interactive fiction", as it's called these days, check out competition entries. https://intfiction.org/c/competitions/7 These are generally written in a shorter amount of time and the results are quicker to play through.
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Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
Various old skool text adventures:
If you are already experienced with them then "Counterfeit Monkey" takes it to the next level with a great twist based on anagram-like magic:
> Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.
> Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up.
> Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown.
> Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover.
> Good luck getting off the island.
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl
https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey
If you're new to the genre then "Lost Pig" is a good place to start, though technically it's licence (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0) is not open source.
unknown-horizons
- Unknown Horizons is a 2D real-time strategy simulation
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Any free base builders on pc?
Open Horizons (Anno-like?)
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Starting an open-source re-implementation of an old game
In case you didn't know about it you might be interested in contributing to https://unknown-horizons.org/
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Alternative to Banished
Unknown Horizons is inspired by the Anno series. Not exactly the same, but also a city builder with resource management.
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Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
Not mentioned yet:
Unknown Horizons https://unknown-horizons.org/
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Is there a way to buy a pc game that will allow me to make a high number of accounts? Say ~100?
I suggest you google for "open source [genre]" or something like that. There are games like FreeCiv (Civilization 2 clone), FreeCol (Colonization clone), 0AD (medieval but maybe too much strategy oriented), Unknown Horizons (Anno clone) or Wildelands (Settler 1/2 clone).
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game recommendations for a low-end laptop?
OpenRCT2 UnReal World Unknown Horizons Freeciv Haven & Hearth
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Games for an outdated potato.
Unknown Horizons
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Very low end linux games ?
0 A.D. , Unknown Horizons , NetHack , FreeOrion , Minetest
- Don't neglect Open Source Games! They'll be great on Steam Deck!
What are some alternatives?
asyncglk - AsyncGlk: A Typescript Glk library
osu - rhythm is just a *click* away!
extensions - Inform 7 extensions -- some may be ready for public use, others may be barely working experiments. Enjoy!
freeciv - Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. Upstream repository for the standalone Freeciv client and server. Report bugs and submit patches at https://osdn.net/projects/freeciv/ticket/
Mudlet - ⚔️ A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD client with scripting in Lua
teiserver - Middleware server for online gaming
if - Interactive Fiction technology: specifications and tests
shapez.io - shapez.io is an open source base building game inspired by factorio! Available on web & desktop
OpenWorm - Repository for the main Dockerfile with the OpenWorm software stack and project-wide issues
oolite - The main Oolite repository.
0ad - Git mirror of the 0 A.D. source code (http://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser)
vcmi - Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III