Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

6 hours ago (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)

I am obviously missing something here, but how is it "command line"?

Damn windows only - not on mac. I really loved the first one. Hope they port it to mac eventually.

The video for Duskers 2 in the linked article was of a very graphical, real-time engine style game with sound, music and animation

title is misleading if not abusive of our time

Duskers is a very cool game. It's very difficult and stressful, so it's easy to bounce off of; but the concept and execution are top notch.

Wow! I would not have expected to hear about this game again. The first game was a lot of fun, definitely room to flesh out the game play loop but had great ideas.

"command line"

  • There's a terminal window in the game which you use to control your robots

    I even found some shell constructs to work beyond what the game documented/ explained to me

    • Doom and Quake had drop-down command consoles too that let the user change the game's state -- I've included such features in some of my GUI, realtime engine games too. but I would never promote any as a "command line" game