ATC (Air Traffic Control) terminal game (bsdgames package)

by luc 7 years ago

GNU/Linux ◆ xterm-256color ◆ bash 4841 views

Me playing /usr/games/atc (provided by the bsdgames package on Debian). The level is called “novice” and was provided with the game. I’m not very good at it as you can see, dying in less than 4 minutes.

For some reason I can’t find any other videos of this game online (here or elsewhere), but it’s fun and very challenging. I like that there is very little randomness involved: if you die, it’s your fault. There is no AI to be at fault, nor can it be an input problem (it’s keyboard-only and the controls are definitely not an excuse for messing up, unlike e.g. the Wii controller which is always at fault).

If you are unfamiliar with the game: you direct planes to destinations given on the right. Destinations, exits, are denoted with the letter E and their number. Planes are addressed (as you can see on the bottom) by their letter. The plane’s digit (on the right and on the main screen) indicates its altitude. You lose when a plane exits incorrectly, runs out of fuel, or is too close to another plane (may not be adjacent nor occupy the same tile, horizontally and vertically). You cannot pause. You cannot win. Such is life.

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You can download this recording in asciicast v1 format, as a .json file.

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Replay in terminal

You can replay the downloaded recording in your terminal using the asciinema play command:

asciinema play 96532.json

If you don't have asciinema CLI installed then see installation instructions.

Use with stand-alone player on your website

Download asciinema player from the releases page (you only need .js and .css file), then use it like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="asciinema-player.css" />
</head>
<body>
  <div id="player"></div>
  <script src="asciinema-player.min.js"></script>
  <script>
    AsciinemaPlayer.create(
      '/assets/96532.json',
      document.getElementById('player'),
      { cols: 80, rows: 24 }
    );
  </script>
</body>
</html>

See asciinema player quick-start guide for full usage instructions.

While this site doesn't offer GIF conversion at the moment, you can still do it yourself with the help of asciinema GIF generator utility - agg.

Once you have it installed run the following command to create GIF file:

agg https://asciinema.org/a/96532 96532.gif

Or, if you already downloaded the recording file:

agg 96532.json 96532.gif

Check agg --help for all available options. You can change font family and size, select color theme, adjust speed and more.

See agg manual for full usage instructions.