New BSD Games

You have a computing machine from 1980's and you wonder how you can use it?
You are a bored sysadmin with no work, and need to kill time looking busy with terminal?
You have Plan9 dual-booted with OpenBSD and have kept the OpenBSD just for gaming?
You have to make a Reversi AI for your homework and you don't know where to copy it from?
Your port of Linux to a fancy platform has no GUI, but you still want nice screenshots?
You have been so excited about the bsdgames, but have grown tired of playing tetris, snake and robots for billions of times?
Are you feeling that betrayed you by bundling stuff like phantasia in a package you expected to contain GAMES?
Did you come here thinking it is bsdgames?

Don't worry anymore as you've got nbsdgames now!

The games include:

Jewels (A game with a gameplay kinda similiar to that of Tetris, NOT my invention)
Sudoku
Mines (Minesweeper)
Reversi
Checkers
Battleship
SOS
Rabbithole (A maze-exploring game where you have to gather items from all around the maze rather than reaching an end, the idea maybe mine)
Pipes (Same as the famous Pipe Mania)
Fifteen
Memoblocks (or Memory blocks. A similar game was included in Windows 7)
Fisher
Muncher
Miketron
Redsquare (Conway's Game of Life made playable!)
Darrt (with original gameplay!)
Snakeduel
Tugow (Numpad practice game)

The difficulty and/or dimensions are adjustable through simple command line options, you can play a minesweeper game that take hours to complete, or exprience hexadecimal sudoku and 8x8 fifteen-like puzzles!

Or just enter "nbsdgames" at your terminal to get a fancy menu and play all sorts of games from there.

Play on xterm for best experience.

Prerequisites

git (optional)
POSIX make (optional)
A C compiler with C99 enabled
The standard library
ncurses (libncurses5-dev if you are on debian-based distros)

To install them all on debian-base :

        sudo apt install git make gcc libncurses5-dev

How to run

Download the files
Go to the sources directory
Install

Like this:

        git clone https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames
        cd ./nbsdgames
        make
        sudo make install # or use the binaries already compiled

Packages

It's on almost every repo by now: Debian (and other DEBs), OpenSUSE (and other RPMs), AUR, Alpine, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, Minix, Homebrew (MacOSX) and more https://repology.org/project/nbsdgames/versions

Thanks to Elias Riedel Gårding, Zinjanthropus, Gürkan Myczko, Robert Clausecker, Sam James, and so many other nice people for packaging.

They also gave back code and useful feedback.

Other Platforms

They are known to work on Windows as well (using PDCurses, thanks to Laura Michaels for providing advice).

They have been ported to Plan9 thanks to Jens Staal!

Thanks to PDCurses they even work on DOS and every platform with SDL.

They should theoretically work on OS/2 as well but I have not verified that yet.

Dependencies

git (optional)
POSIX make (optional)
A C compiler with C99 enabled
The standard library
ncurses (libncurses5-dev if you are on debian-based distros)

To install them all on debian-base :

        sudo apt install git make gcc libncurses5-dev

How to build

Download the files
Go to the sources directory
Install

Like this:

        git clone https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames
        cd ./nbsdgames
        make
        sudo make install # or use the binaries already compiled

How do these look like

Linux+xterm+tmux

Plan9

Windows

How to contribute

Share these with your friends and others
Your stars make the repo more findable in Github ⭐
Tell me your feature requests, bug reports, etc.
Tell me the games you want to be added (but in the same genre, I can't port Angry Birds to curses! :)
Make a package for your distro (or put it on repos if the package is not there)
Tell distro developers to consider adding these as default games, nbsdgames packs a lot of fun games in a few hundreds of kilobytes.
Compile these with ASAN, play and find C-ish bugs.

Also thanks to all the people who helped in the previous versions, all what I requested was done! I didn't expect such an amount of assistance on this project ❤️

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