Games and fun
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Emacs has many entertaining features.
Built-in Games
- These games are included in Emacs.
- 5x5 - fill in all the squares
- animate - make text dance
- blackbox - find objects by firing beams into a black box
- DecipherMode - help for cracking a simple alphabetic substitution cipher
- DissociatedPress – fun with gibberish
- EmacsDoctor - psychological help from a Rogerian analyst, for when it’s all getting too much for you
- dunnet - text-mode dungeon adventure game
- gomoku - five-in-a-row against the computer
- hanoi - computer solving the towers of hanoi game
- lm - neural net robot that learns landmarks
- life - John Conway’s game of life
- meese - stop impressionable young minds of America from seeing the etc/sex.6 man page
- MorseCode - convert text to and from morse code
- mpuz - multiplication puzzle (hidden digits)
- pong - two-player computerized ping-pong
- snake - guide a snake around the screen, eat to grow
- solitaire - balls on an 8x8 cross shaped grid
- studlify-region - convert text to stUdlY caps
- Tetris - arrange falling blocks
- yow - random Zippy quote
- ZoneMode - crazy screen effects when idle
Add-on Games
- These games are available through third party packages.
- Alienmangel – a graphical action/adventure-game inspired by Rodent’s revenge
- BefungeMode – interpreter for the funny Befunge programming language
- Emacs-Chess
- EmacsRobots – like crobots and friends
- GoMode – play GNU Go within Emacs
- IgsGoMode – play Go over the internet
- GoProblemMode – solve go problems interactively
- Hangman – word guessing against the computer
- KeyWiz – practice those Emacs keybindings!
- Nummove – a graphical game of fifteen
- MalyonMode – plays interactive fiction / Infocom games (Z machine interpreter, remember Zork?)
- MandelBrot and other fractals generated by Emacs
- MazeMax – generating and navigating thru complex mazes
- MushMode – Has link other mudclients running on Emacs
- NBackGame – A game for brain training which may improve working memory and intelligence
- NethackMode – play nethack inside emacs
- PhutballMode – play phutball over the net
- RandomIdleQuote – not really a game, but fun! Show’s a quote when emacs goes into idle.
- RLX – a graphical roguelike engine and development system for Emacs(currently being ported to Common Lisp).
- rpg-el – a role playing game
- ScrmableSrtnig
- SokobanMode
- TypingOfEmacs – a game for fast typers
- TypingPractice – typing practice in the minibuffer.
- Whine – complaint generator
- MineSweeper – a game of mine sweeper
- Elite for Emacs – An Emacs version of the classic game Elite
- EightPuzzle – a game of eight puzzle
- Sudoku – classic number puzzle
- EmacsPoker – simple video poker game for Emacs
- Emstar - another implementation of dstar
- Conx – like the built-in DissociatedPress