piqueserver VS devilution

Ace of Spades is one. I usually play with the OpenSpades client[1], but there is also Betterspades[2], and probably many other clients I don't know of yet. There are usually about 10-50 players online on the public servers listed on BuildAndShoot[3], variable depending on the time of day and mostly from Latin America it seems.

One can host the game with piqueserver[4]. I'm not sure if one can still host with the original Ace of Spades server, but the game was 'shut down' in 2019 so maybe not.

[1]: https://openspades.yvt.jp/

[2]: https://github.com/xtreme8000/BetterSpades

[3]: https://www.buildandshoot.com/servers/

[4]: https://www.piqueserver.org/

Reverse engineered from some partial leaks: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution#introduction

Diablo 1 https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

Devilution is a reversed-engineered recreation of the Blizzard's Diablo engine. Still need the original game, and optionally Hellfire, for maps and assets.

For Diablo you might be interested to learn about https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution - and, if you like both Icewind Dale and Diablo, you might be interested in the in-between game that is Nox by Westwood, which is also native on Linux thanks to https://github.com/noxworld-dev/opennox

> Now imagine the code base of original Diablo.

No need to imagine! https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

This is >99% binary exact when compiling with the original toolchain.

This github issue is continually adding to that list:

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution/issues/64

If you get really nostalgic, check out my links page. There are well over 600 links. Many thanks to archive.org!

Making games is hard. Code is never going to be perfect and you could always contrive corner-case scenarios that break your design at any given point. For some perspective, Diablo 1 declared all the items and spells in a giant array. Do what ships the game.

Super Mario 64 and Diablo come to mind.