propose games-text category

[Sid]

We need another category, for interpreters, game engines, maybe game servers, game server queries, and other utilities that aren't the whole game, or that require the original game. Perhaps, games-utils. dMagetic requires an original game, as does scummvm for many popular games. 

The games category is crowded, and it makes sense to have a full category for games-text. Let games-text be a secondary category for game components that are also mainly game utilities. Eventually games-utils will need a full category of its own.

These directly below are for starting on games-utils, not games-text.

% psearch -c games interpreter
dMagnetic           Magnetic Scrolls Interpreter
easyrpg-player      RPG Maker 2000/2003 and EasyRPG games interpreter
frotz               Infocom Z-machine games interpreter
instead             Simple Text Adventure, The Interpreter
jzip                Text-mode Infocom game interpreter
ponscripter-sekai   NScripter-like novel-game interpreter with Unicode support
sarien              Sierra AGI games interpreter
scare               ADRIFT-compatible interactive games interpreter
scummvm             Interpreter for several adventure games
tads                TADS compiler/interpreter for interactive fiction
xinfocom            Infocom game interpreter for X11
xzip                Infocom game interpreter that runs under X11
zoom                Z-Interpreter for X with full V6 support

games/freera requires the original cd. But alternatively openra is an opensource version of this that doesn't require a original cd.

% psearch -c games server
bzflag-server       Multiplayer 3D tank battle game (server only)
cgoban              Internet Go Server client and game editor
cockatrice          Virtual tabletop client and server for multiplayer card games
doom                DOOM: the game and the sound server
hedgewars-server    Server part of free Worms-like turn based strategy game
ioquake3-server     Ioquake3 dedicated server
jin                 Graphical client for chess servers
linux-etqw-demo-server Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Demo Server for Linux
linux-etqw-server   Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Server for Linux
maitretarot         Server side of MaitreTarot, a Tarot card game
manaplus            Free open source 2D MMORPG client for athena and evol servers
masterserver        Masterserver for IdSoftware games (D3, EF, H2, Q2, Q3, QW)
minecraft-server    Dedicated server for the game Minecraft
mtaserver           Multi Theft Auto: Vice City and GTA3 dedicated server
mvdsv               Enhanced QuakeWorld server with multi-view demos capability
netwalk             Game where the object is to connect every terminal to the main server
odamex              Client/server multiplayer engine for Doom
openarena-server    Quake3 total conversion based on the ioquake3 engine
qstat               Command-line program to query game servers on the net
quaqut              Queries information from Unreal Tournament 2004 game servers
r1q2                
sampsvr             
wmqstat             
xboard              
xboard-devel        
xpilot              
xpilot-ng-server    
games/xqf                 
net/hlmaster              
net/nyancat               

% psearch -c games engine
devel/flatzebra           Generic game engine for 2D double-buffering animation
devel/godot               Game runtime engine
devel/godot2              
devel/love                Open-source 2D game engine
devel/love07              
devel/love08              
devel/love10              Open-source 2D game engine (legacy version 0.10)
devel/love5               
emulators/cannonball      Enhanced OutRun Engine
games/OpenTomb            Open-source Tomb Raider 1-5 engine remake
games/abuse_sdl           SDL port of the Abuse game engine
games/adonthell           Role playing game engine

games/ags                 Adventure Game Studio Engine
games/alephone-scenarios  Free scenarios for the Aleph One engine
games/aquaria             Underwater 2D fantasy action-adventure (game engine)
games/cake                Quake3 map viewer (and powerful 3D game engine)
games/chocolate-doom      Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife engine port compatible with the originals
games/darkplaces          Quake engine modification
games/devilutionX         Diablo I engine for modern operating systems
games/doom-hacx           Full TC using the Doom II engine
games/edge                DOOM style engine aimed at the Total Conversion developer
games/egl                 Enhanced OpenGL-only Quake II engine
games/exult               Ultima VII engine
games/fairymax            Chess engine for shatranj, courier chess, and others
games/flare-engine        Free Libre Action Roleplaying Engine
games/flare-game          Free Libre Action Roleplaying Engine: game data
games/freedink            Metaport for FreeDink engine and data
games/freedink-engine     Dink Smallwood RPG and RPG Construction Set
games/freedroidrpg        Modification of the classical Freedroid engine into an RPG
games/freeminer-default   The main game for the Freeminer game engine
games/freera              Westwood red alert game engine
games/fs2open             Open source video engine of FreeSpace 2
games/gemrb               GemRB (Game engine made with preRendered Background)
games/glbsp               BSP node builder for OpenGL ports of the DOOM game engine
games/gzdoom              GL-enhanced source port for Doom-engine games
games/hypatia_engine      Game engine for 2D top-down, tile-based action RPGs
games/iortcw              Game engine for Return to Castle Wolfenstein
games/joequake            Improved NQ engine with ZQuake and FuhQuake graphical effects
games/leela-zero          Go engine without human-provided knowledge based on AlphaGo Zero paper
games/lgeneral            Turn-based strategy engine inspired by Panzer General
games/libretro-nxengine   Cave Story game engine clone for libretro
games/libretro-tyrquake   Libretro port of Tyrquake (Quake 1 engine)
games/minerbold           Remake of Bolder Dash from BK-0010 with INSTEAD engine
games/minetest_game       The main game for the Minetest game engine
games/nazghul             Computer role-playing game engine
games/nehquake            Quake engine designed for playing Nehahra
games/nxengine            Engine-rewrite of the classic platformer Cave Story
games/odamex              Client/server multiplayer engine for Doom
games/onscripter          Visual novel engine compatible with NScripter
games/openage             Free engine clone of the Genie Engine
games/openarena           Quake3 total conversion based on the ioquake3 engine
games/openarena-server    Quake3 total conversion based on the ioquake3 engine
games/openbor             2D side scrolling engine for beat 'em ups, shooters, and more
games/openbor3482         
games/openbor3711         
games/openbor3979         
games/openbor4432         
games/opengfx             
games/openjazz            
games/openmsx             
games/openmw              
games/openomf             
games/opensfx             
games/pachi-game-engine   
games/prboom-plus         
games/py-fife             
games/q2p                 
games/q2pro               
games/q3cellshading       
games/quake2max           
games/qudos               
games/rawgl               
games/regoth              
games/reminiscence        
games/sjeng               
games/solarus             
games/solarus-quest-editor 
games/spring              
games/stockfish           
games/stratagus           
games/tenebrae            
games/trenchbroom         
games/valyriatear         
games/wyrmgus            
games/xray_re-tools       
games/zdoom               

perhaps for queries, with some overlap.
% psearch -c games quer

for game data
% psearch -c games data

and for retroarch and libretro
% psearch -c games retro


From: "Thomas Dettbarn" <dettus at dettus.net>

>Nice. May I ask to add games/dMagnetic to the new console section?
 
>> Propose to split games category to an additional category for games that can be played on the command line console without a window manager. Perhaps, it can be named games-text, games-terminal or games-cli. It would include curses games, ascii games and basic command line games.
 
 
>> These below are in the current games category. The headers are the search term.
 
>> 2048
 
>> ascii:
0verkill
ascii-invaders (also a curses games)
asciiquarium
cowsay
cursive
linux-dwarffortress
tractorgen
 
>> curses:
yahtzee
tornado
tbclock
ski
npush
cryptoslam
seabattle
 
>> ncurses:
alienware
aop
bastet
cavezofphear
ninvaders
nsnake
xtgyoretsu
ztrack
 
>> console:
ctris
tetrinet
 
>> text:
block
bsdtris
dungeon
eif
eights
enygma
freesweep
greed
lexter
nonsense
oldrunner
rfksay
sex
textmaze
 
>> bsd:
bsdgames
coffeebreak
 
>> terminal:
freesweep
lexter
textmaze
tt
tty-solitaire
vitetris
py-cbeams
 
>> japanese:
today
 
>> tty:
slashem-tty
 
>> type:
sl
 
>> determine:
evilfinder
 
>> rubygem:
rubygem-vimgolf
rubygem-lolcat
rubygem-fortune_gem
 
>> p5:
p5-Games-AlphaBeta
p5-Games-Bingo
p5-Games-Dice