Any DOS Batch game recommendations?

[nifty]

Hello, Nifty here! Been reading DosTips tutorials for a few years now, and DOS Batch was literally the first programming language I ever heard anyone talk about, when I was six or seven years old, though life happened to take an interesting turn several years later and it ended up not being my first programming language (I started with JavaScript), but a year later I hopped back on that DOS train, where I should have started. This year, I became a fan of YouTube Dr. Al, known for his Lands of Death game written entirely in DOS Batch, made in 2016, as well as TheBatchGuy on Itch.io, who has a list of other DOS games on the platform, including a fairly popular game in the DOS community or so I've been told, Batch Town. Now I am about to start programming my own DOS game, The Twenty-Somethings, and I want more games that I can play and even look at the source code for inspiration. Do you recommend any DOS Batch games?

[Aacini]

Mmm... I just could talk about the games I wrote by myself:

• 2012/06/20: SNAKE.BAT: Example of basic animated game (at end of
  this post)
• 2014/06/24: 2048.bat game in color (using auxiliary .exe files).
• 2015/11/27: Tetris game in a pure Batch file
• 2016/04/12: Tetris in color (using Read arrow keys and show color text PowerShell engine)
• 2016/04/24: 2048.bat game (using the PowerShell engine)
• 2018/06/06: VIBORAS.bat: A multi-player version in color of Snake game

Antonio

[nifty]

These sound great! Nothing against PowerShell, I might even learn PowerShell one day, but I'm sticking to standard Batch for now, but I'm sure some of these games will help. I actually heard about the Snake one on some YouTube post, maybe it was a game demo with a link to this forum, and I think Snake games used to be a common thing in BASIC, so why not DOS? I will probably love this one! I will pass on the PowerShell for now, but it still seems interesting, like something I might look into one day.

[IcarusLives]

I also made a version of snake earlier this year.

https://github.com/IcarusLivesHF/Batch- ... main/snake

[nifty]

These are nice! I wonder if there's a website that hosts Batch games from across the web, in the same way there is a website devoted to general text games, and a website devoted to audio games. At first, I thought DosTips itself was this because of the batch files link on the home page, but it's pretty much all tools, no games, I thought for sure that this Snake game, which I had heard of before, would be in there, but I guess they focus on just tools or something.

[miskox]

Dave's:

- Colossal Cave Adventure: viewtopic.php?t=4876
- snake: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4741

Saso

[nifty]

Oh wow! I'm a lifelong fan of Colossal Cave Adventure! I'm glad to see that someone made a version for DOS, this is so nifty!

[Sponge Belly]

Hello All!

This discussion includes variants of Mastermind by Dave Benham, Foxidrive, Aacini, and T3RRY.

And this discussion contains a link to a game called Sokobox by Carlos, which requires his BG utility.

Have fun!

- SB