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It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldscho

It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just generally being great people in a nice place. I got inspired yesterday and wrote us up our own custom low-rent version of Flappy Bird: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/ http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/

pja 12y ago
That is one brutal Flappy Bird remix Josh - it's even worse than the original!
- joshmillard 12y ago
  No point in making an easy one, I reckon!
  - joshmillard 12y ago
    Though I did spend about fifteen minutes working on a pure command-line turn-based version called Roguey Bird a few months ago before realizing I didn't actually feel like spending more than fifteen minutes on it at the time.
ErikRogneby 12y ago
I love that very quickly my goal was to score a single point. And then I did and it showed my high score! Sweet, I got high score I can quit now...
- sejje 12y ago
  Sorry to tell you that, at least as far as I can tell, that's a personal high score.
joshmillard 12y ago
Decided we needed an arcade page for all the sweet games: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/games.html http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/games.html
- stevewilhelm 12y ago
  Where's adventure or empire?
  - joshmillard 12y ago
    Early days yet; I'm looking forward to folks getting all kinds of stuff either installed or written from scratch.
SeanDav 12y ago
I scored 8. Must have got lucky!
m_myers 12y ago
I could only get as high as 14 before getting bored and fiddling with the source code.
gohrt 12y ago
It's called Helicopter :-(
- jpswade 12y ago
  http://www.helicopter-game.org/ http://www.helicopter-game.org/ :)
- nnnnni 12y ago
  Helicopter had "hold to increase elevation" rather than "tap to fly up"... and was a MUCH better game for it.
motdiem 12y ago
it obviously needs a tilde clicker too :-)
joshmillard 12y ago
In the interest of truly returning to the days of Nintendo Power hijinks, I have added a high score table that is powered by people sending me screenshots of their high scores.
ibisum 12y ago
It's a little bit of the spirit of The Well, and some USENET/BBS to boot. I think this is really missing from the modern web, so I cheer you on! It is a toast-worthy activity, your little blip on the horizon ..

pja 12y ago

That is one brutal Flappy Bird remix Josh - it's even worse than the original!

joshmillard 12y ago
No point in making an easy one, I reckon!
- joshmillard 12y ago
  Though I did spend about fifteen minutes working on a pure command-line turn-based version called Roguey Bird a few months ago before realizing I didn't actually feel like spending more than fifteen minutes on it at the time.

ErikRogneby 12y ago

I love that very quickly my goal was to score a single point. And then I did and it showed my high score! Sweet, I got high score I can quit now...

sejje 12y ago
Sorry to tell you that, at least as far as I can tell, that's a personal high score.

joshmillard 12y ago

Decided we needed an arcade page for all the sweet games: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/games.html http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/games.html

stevewilhelm 12y ago
Where's adventure or empire?
- joshmillard 12y ago
  Early days yet; I'm looking forward to folks getting all kinds of stuff either installed or written from scratch.

SeanDav 12y ago

I scored 8. Must have got lucky!

m_myers 12y ago

I could only get as high as 14 before getting bored and fiddling with the source code.

gohrt 12y ago

It's called Helicopter :-(

jpswade 12y ago
http://www.helicopter-game.org/ http://www.helicopter-game.org/ :)
nnnnni 12y ago
Helicopter had "hold to increase elevation" rather than "tap to fly up"... and was a MUCH better game for it.

motdiem 12y ago

it obviously needs a tilde clicker too :-)

joshmillard 12y ago

In the interest of truly returning to the days of Nintendo Power hijinks, I have added a high score table that is powered by people sending me screenshots of their high scores.

ibisum 12y ago

It's a little bit of the spirit of The Well, and some USENET/BBS to boot. I think this is really missing from the modern web, so I cheer you on! It is a toast-worthy activity, your little blip on the horizon ..