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24 alternatives to Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell
This is still WIP, but if anyone is interested, we could develop it much faster and perhaps even with cooler features like TUI graphics etc ... Right now it is all in plain ol bash
Bash Dungeon is an educational dungeon crawler game written entirely in Bash for terminal play. It teaches shell scripting concepts through interactive gameplay as users navigate a text-based dungeon. Currently in… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2010 · tametick.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · punkx.org · its alternatives →
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initiative.sh is a storytelling aid for game masters. It
2021 · initiative.sh · its alternatives →
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Minimal distributed configuration management in bash - frameable/aviary.sh
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Play and create AI-generated adventures with infinite possibilities.
2019 · aidungeon.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · bash.rocks · its alternatives →
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A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Simple Unix-like operating system. Contribute to ozkl/soso development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An attempt at saner Bash defaults. Contribute to mrzool/bash-sensible development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bash▲93Fun alternative to Zoom for games, gifs & panel discussion
2021 · about.roblox.com · its alternatives →
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Dungeons 2▲67Rule and expand your dungeon with a (floating) iron fist!
2015 · kalypsomedia.com · its alternatives →
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Dungeon crawling with a Minecraft style
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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I don't normally share side projects here(or in general). Don't have much time to open them up to too much attention. I started this project while riding in a car last weekend. Mainly to explore OpenAI Codex. Using Github mobile I wrote the initial specifications into the readme, and using the ChatGPT iOS app, had Codex build a simple CLI based dungeon master. Switched back to Github for managing the PRs and back and forth for the whole car ride... It kinda got a little out of hand from there, and it's now a mix of AI(mostly AI) and myself making adjustments... The first version was entirely…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal-based game engine for Go, built on top of Termbox - JoelOtter/termloop
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Or more precisely, my little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website . A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity. Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. But. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and of course one could not let the half-past just be. So here we are, for better or worse. Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\// The README explains all, animated GIFs and…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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BashBuddy▲159Write bash commands with natural language, fully local.
2025 · bashbuddy.run · its alternatives →
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Rogue-lite as a Notepad++ Plugin. Contribute to thelowsunoverthemoon/NeuroPriest development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · bovard.github.io · its alternatives →
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