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Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates

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242 points discoinverno | 2 comments | 22 Nov 24 08:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source

Rebels in the sky is a P2P multiplayer game about crews of space pirates roaming the galaxy to play basketball against each other. It's basically a basketball managerial game with some pirate-y stuff. It's a P2P game with no central server, built on top of libp2p. Players interaction are limited to playing games against each other and trading pirates.

The game runs as a terminal application, meaning that you just need to run it from your terminal.

You can try the game over ssh without installing: `ssh frittura.org -p 3788`

My server is not very powerful and there is a limit to the number of concurrent players, so if you like it I would appreciate it if you could install it (https://github.com/ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky?tab=readme-ov-f...) and run it locally :)

Here is a trailer (not of the last version, so some little things are different): https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aaa02f04-06db-4da...

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neomantra ◴[22 Nov 24 19:05 UTC] No.42216514[source]▶
This is very cool. Thank you for sharing your creativity with this game and its source! I love that it is accessed via ssh and is multiplayer.

A screenshot or animated gif in the README might be helpful. Like others I can’t see the movie. Check out charm’s vhs tool to make these.

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yoavm ◴[22 Nov 24 19:22 UTC] No.42216648[source]▶
Please not an animated gif. These easily end up weighing more than 10MB, while a similar mp4 can be 500KB. You just need to use an encoding all browsers support.
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1. _flux ◴[22 Nov 24 19:42 UTC] No.42216781[source]▶
I doubt in this case they'd weigh 10 MB, or have you experienced "terminal movies" growing that large?

In fact, I wonder if in this case the gifs would be smaller, while lossless.

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2. smaudet ◴[22 Nov 24 22:29 UTC] No.42217879[source]▶
I suppose it depends on how full color the terminal output is, and how well the GIF is encoded.

I think you're probably correct for this case you can get something smaller.

Nevertheless, the movie has sound, which a GIF (AFAIK) can only do if part of a e.g. an html page...and now you have non-standard browsers to deal with vs just using an mp4.