Games and fun

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