EmacsWiki: Category Games (original) (raw)

Click on the header to list some pages related to game playing on Emacs.

Builtin games/amusements

• 5x5 - fill in all the squares
• animate - make text dance
• blackbox - find objects by firing beams into a black box
• bubbles - remove as many bubbles as possible in as few moves as possible.
• DecipherMode - help for cracking a simple alphabetic substitution cipher
• DissociatedPress – fun with gibberish
• EmacsDoctor - psychological help from a Rogerian analyst, for when it’s all getting too much for you
• dunnet - text-mode dungeon adventure game
• gomoku - five-in-a-row against the computer
• hanoi - computer solving the towers of hanoi game
• igo - Play Go / Weichi / Baduk or read a game in SGF.
• landmark - neural net robot that learns landmarks; in Emacs 24 it is invoked with landmark; in previous version it is invoked with lm
  • http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.24.2
• life - John Conway’s game of life
• meese - stop impressionable young minds of America from seeing the etc/sex.6 man page
• MorseCode - convert text to and from morse code
• mpuz - multiplication puzzle (hidden digits)
• pong - two-player computerized ping-pong
• snake - guide a snake around the screen, eat to grow
• solitaire - balls on an 8x8 cross shaped grid
• spook - Generates words to get government’s attention
• studlify-region - convert text to stUdlY caps
• TetrisMode - arrange falling blocks (see also: https://github.com/skeeto/autotetris-mode)
• yow - random Zippy quote
• ZoneMode - crazy screen effects when idle

Add-on games

• Alienmangel – a graphical action/adventure-game inspired by Rodent’s revenge
• Animal – the computer guesses what animal you’re thinking of
• BefungeMode – interpreter for the funny Befunge programming language
• ChessMode
• Ducpel – logic game with sokoban elements
• EmacsRobots – like crobots and friends
• GoMode – play GNU Go within Emacs
  • IgsGoMode – play Go over the internet
  • GoProblemMode – solve go problems interactively
• Hangman – word guessing against the computer
• KeyWiz – practice those Emacs keybindings!
• Klondike – Klondike solitaire for Emacs
• Nummove – a graphical game of fifteen
• MalyonMode – plays interactive fiction / Infocom games (Z machine interpreter, remember Zork?)
• MandelBrot and other fractals generated by Emacs
• MazeMax – generating and navigating through complex mazes
• MushMode – Has link other mudclients running on Emacs
• NBackGame – A game for brain training which may improve working memory and intelligence
• NethackMode – play nethack inside emacs
• PhutballMode – play phutball over the net
• RandomIdleQuote – not really a game, but fun! Shows a quote when emacs goes into idle
• RLX, a graphical roguelike engine and development system for Emacs(currently being ported to Common Lisp)
• ScrmableSrtnig
• Slime Volleyball (screenshot)
• SokobanMode
• Trek52 – Star Trek game
• TypingOfEmacs – a game for fast typers
• TypingPractice – typing practice in the minibuffer.
• 2048-mode Port of popular game 2048 to Elisp
• Tron – A tron game with a configurable number of opponents.
• Whine – complaint generator
• MineSweeper – a game of mine sweeper
• Elite for Emacs – An Emacs version of the classic game Elite
• Emacsia – A demo of a nethack-like (dungeon exploration) game
• EightPuzzle – a game of eight puzzle
• Sudoku – classic number puzzle
• EmacsPoker – simple video poker game for Emacs
• Emstar - another implementation of dstar (github repository)
• Conx – like the built-in DissociatedPress
• Turing machine – Turing machine puzzle game (Same as Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday google doodle)
• Pacmacs – Pacman-like game for Emacs
• Key Quiz – Guess the correct key sequence for different commands

Other modes for games related things

• AntMode – edit ant brain files for Ant Wars
• WmlMode – edit Wesnoth Markup Language (WML) files for Battle of Wesnoth
• TinyFugueMode – edit TF files

Other amusements

• Totally useless and utterly awesome packages (Reddit) discusses Emacs-based amusements, such as:
  • https://github.com/johanvts/emacs-fireplace/
  • https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode/ and https://github.com/wasamasa/zone-nyan
  • http://melpa.org/#/highlight-tail
  • https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode
  • http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Deldo
  • https://github.com/wiz21b/FlamesOfFreedom : Display a poem in flames

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