Games on tilde.town

Various games are available in Town. Here's a list of them.

botany

botany is a command line virtual plant buddy written by curiouser. At first you'll be given a seed that will eventually grow into a beautiful plant, but it will do so only if you remember to water it every 24 hours. After five days without water, your beloved plant will die. To avoid that, you can ask your neighbors to water your plant if you plan to be absent for a while. You can also take care of your neighbors' plants too.

To start playing, just enter the following command:

botany

asciifarm

asciifarm is a multiplayer ascii farming/fighting game. The idea is to maintain private and public areas where players can build their own farm and interact with each other. There are currently two generated dungeons where players can explore and fight for loot. To enter and play just type in your command prompt:

asciifarm

tron

Tron is a local and multiplayer ascii Tron where you ride your lightcycle in order to destroy your opponents. To enter the battle, type the following command:

tron

writo

writo is a persistent world created by selfsame where anybody in town can draw in ascii. You can see the result in black and white here or in full-color full-range here. To enter the writo world and start drawing, just type:

writo

usolitaire

usolitaire is a command-line solitaire. To play, enter the following command and move the cards by clicking on them:

usolitaire

chin

chin is command-line chinchirorin, a Japanese game played with three dice in a small bowl. It appears in the games Suikoden and Suikoden II, and in the manga and anime Kaiji. To play chinchirorin, enter the following command:

chin

holodeck

holodeck is is an exploration game, where your only interaction with the game is navigating through the world, looking at things, and describing things in the world. It is a world we explore and experience together, while wandering around adding more detail to the world, as well as creating new areas to explore and add more detail to. It is like walking through a storybook written by all the players (more information here). To play holodeck, enter the following command:

holodeck

daily adventure

daily adventure is a game where one chooses an action to complete each day. An MVP (minimum viable product) version of the game has been released. It was created by ~troido. To play the daily adventure game, enter the following command:

da

nethack

NetHack is a rogue-like game. After choosing your character race and class, your quest will be to go through a randomly-generated dungeon and retrieve the Amulet of Yendor. Once done, you'll need to ascend and gift it to your God. But beware, many players have gotten lost on their journey and never returned. Will you be more successful? To find out, just type this incantation:

nethack

ATC

Air Traffic Control (ATC) is a challenging game where you need to manage the air traffic of an airport. To see what it's like you can watch this video and to play it, just enter these three letters in your terminal:

atc

Zork I

Zork is a text-only interactive fiction computer game. You'll need to explore the "Great Underground Empire" and complete all the adventures. In order to play, you'll need to interact with various commands (some described here).

The game can be played thanks to the web application Parchment hosted on tom's webspace. In order to play, just click here. Note that because of the use of Parchment you'll not be able to save your game.

Mosaic Tetris

Mosaic Tetris is a Tetris variant where you can put the pieces anywhere and they won't fall down, but you can't rotate them. Filling up horizontal or vertical lines will clear them and give you points.

There is a tilde.town leaderboard that updates hourly with townies' highscores.

To play, shout the following at your terminal:

town mosaic-tetris

last compiled: 2024-10-15 11:00:58.792855