What is a good textbased game program that can be implemente

What is a good text-based game program that can be implemented with linux/unix interface (not only with unix tools such as awk, perl)?

Solution

Cowsay & fortune

Not really a game but it is fun to do when your need something to take your mind off work for a few seconds. Cowsay will simply echo what you tell it in a speech bubble coming from an ASCII cow. I know it sounds childish but try it, it will make your laugh. Fortune is a tool that echoes “words of wisdom”, this is great when you need some inspiration, and combining it with Cowsay can have some great results.

run:

Install (Ubuntu):

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2048-cli is a simple yet interesting terminal game, it is a terminal implementation of the popular GUI-based2048 which is based on 1024 and theoretically has properties of Threes, which is a cross-platform, tiny puzzle smart phone game on iOS, Android and Windows phone.

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MyMan

MyMan is another easy-to-play text based game on your Linux terminal. Its development was highly influenced by the Japanese game development company, Namco’s famous Pac-Man game. It can run on several other Unix-like operating systems including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and many more.

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Greed

Greed is a clone of Pac-Man and Tron similar to MyMan above, but it offers colored text interface.

A player uses the keyboard arrows to eat as many digits as possible in any direction as he/she moves, the number of digits eaten equals to the number of steps in a particular direction.

You can install it on Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint systems as follows: