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24 alternatives to Octal FM - 006 - Running a LAN party
The history of LAN parties, and running your own
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Octal FM - 006 - Running a LAN party launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1IB
I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]: > If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos. Hopefully I did that? Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub: https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize! [0]…
2024 · lanparty.house · its alternatives →
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We chat about six of our favourite real-time strategy games.
2016 · its alternatives →
- 3PP
2020 · psxparty.kosmi.io · its alternatives →
- 4
A bonus length episode all about board gaming
2017 · its alternatives →
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We talk MOBAs, what they are & why they're fun
2017 · its alternatives →
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Because a night out anywhere is better with a local
2016 · its alternatives →
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The beginnings and launch of Y Combinator-backed Gigster
2016 · its alternatives →
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We discuss life-sim games & Stardew Valley
2017 · its alternatives →
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- 10NP
2018 · nes.party · its alternatives →
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- 13LP
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 16WM
Hi Hacker News! My friend and I [1] would like to share with you something we did this week-end. We really like the idea of game jams like the Ludum Dare, and we’d like to participate, but it’s often complicated for us, as we are often limited by the rules inherent to this kind of competition: we have to be available at specific dates, and the rules doesn’t always work for us. For example: if you want to participate as a team in a Ludum Dare compo, you have 72h instead of 48h, and you are not required to publish your code. We realized that what we really like is: - To work together. - The…
2014 · its alternatives →
- 17PC
2014 · playlistful.com · its alternatives →
- 18OO
2015 · octorb.com · its alternatives →
- 19IM
This is our entry in the "spontaneous event creation" ring. I'd love to hear what HN readers think!
2011 · shoutfast.com · its alternatives →
- 20MW
Happy Halloween! Instead of going to a Halloween party this year, my wife and I decided to run a tiny Hackathon and built this little retro choose-your-own-adventure to pay tribute to a popular series of yesteryear. Try and escape! Also pumpkin mode!! We made liberal use of ChatGPT for code, DALLE3/Midjourney for images, but did most of the storyboarding/writing ourselves because we couldn't stand the style of GPT4/Claude.
2023 · tremella.github.io · its alternatives →
- 21PU
After seeing a cool demo of a hack on Twitter, I built a cross platform version of it that works well and uses streaming. From anywhere on Mac and Linux, trigger Ollama and optionally feed it your clipboard. I built it yesterday and it's already very useful to me. I'm pretty excited about it and wanted to share!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 22SC
I was tired of games like Mafia Wars and wanted a phone-based MMO Strategy game where hundreds of players could actually engage each other on a 2D map, so I made one. I track the state of the game each night so we can display a visual timeline of territory controlled by each alliance. (example: http://bit.ly/q5CFhU) I use jQuery mobile for the front end so it runs on most phones (via Phonegap) as well as modern web browsers. The server side is handled by Java Servlets and MySQL. This started as a hobby - I'm not a developer by training - so I am very interested in feedback, suggestions, and…
2011 · its alternatives →
- 23AS
Hi there! I have been a huge fan of pinballs for a few months, discovering all pinballs that are in my city, and I converted quite a few friends to it. The only problem was that we wanted to keep an eye on everyone's score and I always did it in some notes on my phone. This was not very practical. I decided to create a small website so that all my friends can add their scores while we're playing in a gig. The app is minimalistic on purpose: no user authentication, no call to any fancy Pinball API whatsoever. I just need a list of players, gigs, pinballs and scores. The app is built with…
2024 · demo.pinball-friends.com · its alternatives →
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