(pre-development) Stars! PBeM service on Kubernetes
stargones write up
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# stargones
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> Stars! play-by-email game-server built on Agones
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Stars! is a classic Windows 4X space game by the jeffs.
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stargones is an operator for running stars play-by-email campaigns on Kubernetes, helping coordinate turn submissionsa
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stargones ALSO is a atproto lexicon for Stars! racial and turn files, citing them on your
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# files
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Stars! games run off of a couple of tiles:
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# specs
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how do we run the game in a container?
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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.
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# stargones-totesahost
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To play the stars game, we port the superb & divine [TotalHost](https://github.com/ricks03/TotalHost)'s game engine to rust, named `stargones-totesahost`.
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# pie in the sky
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## reverse engineer file formats
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extract file formats
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# references
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- AutoHost hosting is gone (I presume) but starsfaq pbem ([2001](https://web.archive.org/web/20010305033400/http://www.starsfaq.com/pbem.htm)) does an excellent job of reviewing the various file artifacts essential to playing Stars!
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- TotalHost is amazing!!