larsrc 3 months ago

This is a really nice idea! I played it a little bit and found one thing that can be confusing (at least for experienced Bash users): The use of <> as quotes. For instance:

   You can use the < head -n 1 > spell to take a peek at what a file holds
How about using a not-easily-typeable character pair like the guillemots?
  • andrecarini 3 months ago

    > guillemots

    May I suggest 「these」 instead?

    • KuhlMensch 3 months ago

      Wow.

      I'm adding this to my ascii "vocab"

      • Hasnep 3 months ago

        They're CJK 「quotation marks」, so not actually ASCII

  • dotancohen 3 months ago

    Why not the backtick? That's the standard in Markdown, and its actual use in bash is nearly eliminated with the far safer $() syntax.

  • wolandark 3 months ago

    I agree, I myself have doubts about using the chevrons as quotes. bashcrawl used * to show the commands you're supposed to type. You can imagine my confusion when I encountered that notion. Using «» is a good idea though, thank you.

blululu 3 months ago

This is great. At some point in time I realized how much I was using the terminal and spending a bit of time to learn the basics is a great investment of time. I used a similar rouge-like to learn (this one I think: https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl), and it really did help to nail in the basics. Would definitely recommend spending the time on one of these games for anyone who wants to learn.

  • wolandark 3 months ago

    Thank you! Yes I did draw somw inspiration from bashcrawl as well. I didn't know about these types of games when I started using the shell. I'm hoping this can help a few new comers.

    • araes 3 months ago

      If it's something longer term as a project, some other stuff:

      D&D: The Hypertext SRD has 3.5, 5, and Pathfinder material for ideas. https://www.d20srd.org/ Most Nix variants have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing) in them ... it's dangerous in the darkness. Plus, there's lots of word jokes like "Bash the door down" style of play

      Myst/7th Guest/Visual Novel: People in-thread are talking pictures. While command line seems to be the goal, still-frame imagery puzzles using bash commands would be cool.

      The Emoji Movie/Cell Phone: Adventures in the land of appscrapers and their cobble-touch avenues as your Nethack/Rogue icon delves the "open source" nix of the phone hardware.

zersiax 3 months ago

I love this ;) If you do add TUI graphics please consider adding a switch to not use them, ascii art is majorly annoying with a screen reader :)

  • wolandark 3 months ago

    Thanks and of course, I want it to be accessible to everyone.

user3939382 3 months ago

I’m reminded of that movie Hackers where the kid has to solve a 3D maze to authenticate with some remote computer lol

  • MagnumOpus 3 months ago

    Oh and Jurassic Park as well when the girl “hacks” an SG 3D file system navigator to find her way around the computer. “Unix! I know this. ”

BeetleB 3 months ago

Is this more about learning bash or about learning UNIX utilities?

I need more of the latter then the former.

29athrowaway 3 months ago

I hope someone makes a video of this game.

shakna 3 months ago

So is ag "cheating"...?

bozhark 3 months ago

Is there a dengeon option?

smusamashah 3 months ago

Please add a screenshot of what it looks like. I am assuming the only picture you have on the page is not how game looks.