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# New BSD Games
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*You have a computing machine from 1980's and you wonder how you can use it? < br / >
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You are a bored sysadmin with no work, and want to kill time without being fired? < br / >
You are the DSL developer and have cancelled the project because you lacked games? < br / >
Those creepy GTK/QT games make you cringe? < br / >
You have to make a Reversi AI for your homework and you don't know where to copy it from? < br / >
You have been so excited about the bsdgames, but have grown tired of playing tetris, snake and robots for billions of times? < br / >
You feel they have betrayed you by bundling stuff like phantasia with a package you expect to contain GAMES?* < br / >
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**Don't worry** anymore as you've got nbsdgames now!
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I originally made these in hope of them becoming added to NetBSD (but the few i talked to preferred to have games in the repositories rather than in /usr/games itself).
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These include:
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* Jewels (A game with a gameplay kinda similiar to that of Tetris, NOT my invention)
* Sudoku
* Mines (Minesweeper)
* Reversi
* Checkers
* Battleship
* SOS
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* 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)
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* Pipes (Same as the famous Pipe Mania, unplayable on the environments that don't support the line characters)
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* Fifteen
* Memoblocks (or Memory blocks. A similar game was included in Windows 7)
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* Fisher^
* Muncher^
* Miketron^
* Redsquare^ (Conway's Game of Life made playable!)
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They natively run on Linux, BSD, MacOS and are known to work on Windows as well (using PDCurses, thanks to Laura Michaels for providing advice).
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They have been ported to Plan9 thanks to Jens Staal!
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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!
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Play on xterm for best exprience.
^ I have encounterd Fisher, Muncher and Miketron on MikeOS and RedSquare on KolibriOS
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## Prerequisites
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* git (optional)
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* POSIX make (optional)
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* A C compiler with C99 enabled
* The standard library
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* ncurses (libncurses5-dev if you are on debian-based distros)
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## How to run
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1) Download the files
2) Go to the sources directory
3) Set the environment variable PREFIX to the address you want them to be in
4) Install
Like this:
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``` sh
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git clone https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames
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cd ./nbsdgames/sources
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export PREFIX= ~/bin
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make install
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```
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Also, If you are on a debian-based OS on a 64-bit PC you can download the deb package and simply install it with dpkg or apt.
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the deb package(old): https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames/releases/download/v2.0/nbsdgames_amd64.deb
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It's available on AUR thanks to Elias Riedel Gårding: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nbsdgames-git/
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(The commands start with nbsd_ to avoid conflict)
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It's been made available for openSUSE thanks to Zinjanthropus: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Zinjanthropus/nbsdgames
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## How do these look like
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Linux+xterm+tmux
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Plan9
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## How to contribute
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* Share these with your friends and others
* Your stars make the repo more findable in github
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* Tell me your feature requests, bug reports, etc.
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* Tell me the games you want to be added (but in the same genre, i can't port Angry Birds to curses! :)
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* Make a package for your distro (or put it on repos if the package is not there)
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* Does anyone understand debian's .orig.tar.gz and the process to make packages to the repos? Any help would be appreciated.
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Also thank 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 :heart:
