stargones#
Stars! play-by-email game-server built on Agones
Stars! is a classic Windows 4X space game by the jeffs.
stargones is an operator for running stars play-by-email campaigns on Kubernetes, helping coordinate turn submissionsa
stargones ALSO is a atproto lexicon for Stars! racial and turn files, citing them on your
files#
Stars! games run off of a couple of tiles:
specs#
how do we run the game in a container?
how can we make a client that connects but doesn't even get video, just sends input macros to the game? pre-script actions/adjustments? eventually engineer turn files but in-game automation is key.
stargones-totesahost#
To play the stars game, we port the superb & divine TotalHost's game engine to rust, named stargones-totesahost.
pie in the sky#
reverse engineer file formats#
extract file formats
references#
- AutoHost hosting is gone (I presume) but starsfaq pbem (2001) does an excellent job of reviewing the various file artifacts essential to playing Stars!
- TotalHost is amazing!!