Musshi's Heart by yanc0

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made by yanc0 for Ludum Dare 50 (COMPO)

You drive the heart oh a little creature called: Musshi. Every Musshis wants to find love and die peacefully, but they are very fragile. The goal is to maintain heartbeats per minute close to the Musshi's needs. Every heart failure decrease Musshi's life expectancy. Are you going to make it survives long enough to find love ?


My first game ever. I work as a system engineer and I use SSH a lot. I wanted to experiment with this mode of interaction for a game. Maybe I'm crazy and no one will ever launch the game.

An instance of the game is hosted in Nederlands on a tiny Digitalocean server. To play the game, launch your Terminal and SSH to the server:

ssh -p 2222 play.musshi.life

Problems

  • I tried on Windows Putty (SSH Client) and it was a terrible experience. Maybe some of you will have better luck.
  • It's an online game, therefore I hope the latency won't penalize the gaming experience too much.

FAQ

  • Why Musshi ? I wanted to include SSH in the creature name.
  • Programming language ? Musshi's Heart is written in Go.
  • How do I compile and install locally ? See the Github Readme for technical indications.

Ratings

Given 0🗳️ 3🗨️

Feedback

maymay
04. Apr 2022 · 18:08 UTC
Making a game over SSH is such a cool concept!! The ascii art is lovely and the concept is so cute... I could only keep my musshi alive a little over a minute though. The heart rate counter seems to run at a bit of a delay which makes it tricky. Overall love the game though!
xtobyx
04. Apr 2022 · 21:24 UTC
This is such a great game! I'm the co-founder of Charm and found this via Wish projects. If you ever have questions about Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss or Wish just let us know, we'd be happy to help! We have [a Slack](https://charm.sh/slack) or you can email us at vt100@charm.sh. We'd love to promote Musshi's Heart too (we can also host a server), great work and fun game!
Hakro
05. Apr 2022 · 15:54 UTC
This is a really lovely game. The idea is simple yet fits the theme very well, and it makes me happy to keep Musshi alive long enough until he finds true love :heart:

I want to see more games like this !
JovialKnoll
07. Apr 2022 · 03:09 UTC
Well you get high marks for innovation and humor from me! Instant classics like "your musshi is having a stroke" and "how sad to die so young". Yeah I just played again this is amusing.

I think you made a SSH-text-pet-sim-learn-BPM game about as good as that mishmash of words could be.
aligator
08. Apr 2022 · 21:41 UTC
Nice game, funny idea! Also nice to see another ssh game^^
I also tried used Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss and Wish for my game, however as I never used them before, Its by far not as good and bug-free as your game^^

One thing which would have been cool is a highscore, which is very easy to implement as the game anyway runs on a server :-)
However, Nice work!
aligator
08. Apr 2022 · 21:41 UTC
deleted because duplicate