Introduction
- Super Dungeon Bros on Greenlight, Kickstarter coming soon! May 15 2014 News Super Dungeon Bros is an action packed 1-4 player co-op roguelike hack-n-slash! Grab some friends and battle your way through endlessly generated dungeons.
- 'Haque's bite-size gameplay and taut combat loop are superbly crafted. For anyone looking for a new and inventive take on dungeon crawling, Haque is a solid choice: highly recommended.' Save or Quit 'There are so many minute details that it is difficult to wrap my mind around the content of this game from what I have seen so far.
Super Dungeon Freakout on ldjam.com. As so often the case with game jam games, bugs are lurking, so hit refresh if something breaks too horribly for your tastes. Known bug: if you're hugging a wall you can't throw your shield into it. Try stepping back! WASD or cursors to move. Left ctrl to throw your shield.
So I got myself a hardware terminal a year hand a half from now.
A DEC VT320, more precisely (more on that on a later post).
I've been fooling with it for a while, using it like you would use any terminal emulator (only slower and with no UTF8), accessing BBSes, reading newsgroup…
… And playing text adventure games (such as Zork1).
AI Dungeon
And then came AI Dungeon.
You've played it. I've played it2. It seems everybody has played it.
And I quickly realized that this curiosity of a game was not deemed to be played in a Jupyter notebook nor in a web app simulating a terminal.
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No.
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It needs to be played through a hardware terminal like in the good ol' days.
Solution #1
The game is open source.
So one way would be to just clone the project and run it locally.
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Except…
To play the game locally, it is recommended that you have an nVidia GPU with 12 GB or more of memory, and CUDA installed. If you do not have such a GPU, each turn can take a couple of minutes or more for the game to compose its response.
Crap, I don't even have a graphics card.
Solution #2
Well, play.aidungeon.io is a web app… So it necessarily relies on a backend to do the heavy lifting.
So if the API is well designed, it would be super easy to just make a CLI client to it.
And tanksfully that was the case and so that's exactly what I did.
Ta-dam!
Closing thoughts
If you do not have access to a hardware terminal, you could still experience the thing with terminal emulators that emulate the rendering of CRT displays: cool-retro-term or Cathode.app3.
Battle live: halloween live mac os. Also, as you might have heard, hosting AI Dungeon costs a lot of money.
This CLI client relies on the same infrastructure as the online version (play.aidungeon.io).
So don't hesitate to help support the hosting fees to keep the game up and running.
Notes
I highly recommend Trinity from the same publisher (Infocom). ↩
Both 'classic' and '2'. ↩
Mac OS-only. ↩
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Tagged #vt320, #retrocomputing.
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