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If you enjoy this kind of "games in places they shouldn't be" thing, here's some more very silly projects:

- Fontemon: a game in a font https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

- Dungeons & Directories: a text adventure in your file browser https://wheybags.com/dungeons_and_directories/ (disclaimer: I made this one)



Ah thanks for both links! Fun to see that you also chose the filesystem :). Excited to check it out when I am back at a windows machine in a few weeks.

I actually played a bit with font games and wrote Hexagone[1] to see what writing a font was like. I didn’t leave the experience that sure what game to build so it’s fun to have some inspiration.

[1] http://eieio.games/nonsense/hexagone-converting-hex-to-rgb-w...


See also Defender of the Favicon: http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/


The way you did the second is ingenious! Did you consider implementing it with FUSE instead?


There's also rpg-cli for the command line nerds.

https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli


What eldritch magic is this…




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