Watch a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78I-gKAag7s

To play either: Check it out at my BBS: telnet://futureland.today - or: INSTALL ON YOUR BBS https://github.com/hmderdoc/spekder/releases ... Create your own server or connect to another (my arena is available to connect to and listed in examples) The latest as of this posting is 0.7.0.

Thanks for checking it out! Also game is considered BETA, I don't have anything major on my TODO list but will continue to develop it and if any issues come up I'll fix it, there's always a bug or two to squash, filing issues on github is appreciated - thanks in advance. You'll want to keep the door updated as changes become available, but it should also notify you in the door if your version has fallen behind.

it's recommended you use a terminal that supports true color / ansi music, SyncTerm works or the fTelnet at my BBS website https://futureland.today has been modded to support those features too. Netrunner probably won't, nor will a dial-up connection. There is a 16 color mode I haven't put much effort into, not the intended experience for this game at least. Sorry for the non-existent video editing here :)

I sort of started from being inspired by an old Mac game called Spectre and then trying to add mechanics from Overwatch which I guess is the only FPS game I play. Also, there's a map editor, hopefully people make cooler maps than what I've put out, but who am I kidding there's not many of us out there.

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Watch a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78I-gKAag7s

To play either: Check it out at my BBS: telnet://futureland.today - or: INSTALL ON YOUR BBS https://github.com/hmderdoc/spekder/releases ... Create your own server or connect to another (my arena is available to connect to and listed in examples) The latest as of this posting is
0.7.0.

Dude - you've been dropping so much awesome-sauce on the community - thanks for sharing this, I can't wait to swing by and see what its all about and I'm adding this to my 'whats new in bbSing' text.

You flipping r0ck, Derdoc!! :P



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Dude - you've been dropping so much awesome-sauce on the community - thanks for sharing this, I can't wait to swing by and see what its all about and I'm adding this to my 'whats new in bbSing' text.

You flipping r0ck, Derdoc!! :P

pAULIE42o

Thanks man! I'm surprised it worked out so well but after seeing telnetvision shake out ok I figured I'd see if any of the lessons learned there might make something like this possible, and it turned out better than I expected with the snowball effect. I'm curious if anyone's able to build on the engine; makes me wonder if something like Minecraft might be possible, which I'd probably play more than a shooter, then again I ran a real Minecraft server and that thing hogged memory like a beast, so maybe that's a bad idea.

The other tangent that this door has led me to explore is ANSI music, Sp3kDer has a bit of pointless logic devoted to music, including the "Piano roll" / "Guitar hero style" falling notes on the splash screen. It's pretty much begging to be broken out into its own "Keytar Hero" or something game.

Right now I'm banging out a quick utility door I've been sitting on for awhile idea wise that is sort of a modern calendar for BBS that syncs with iCal and google calendars. But the main idea is to maybe have a shared BBS event calendar (as well as personal or bbs level calendars) to direct users to one BBS or experience for some sort of time-boxed event, maybe also opening up a telnet-gateway (WIP). But also works like normal calendar sync too.

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Thanks man! I'm surprised it worked out so well but after seeing telnetvision shake out ok I figured I'd see if any of the lessons
learned there might make something like this possible, and it turned out better than I expected with the snowball effect. I'm curious if anyone's able to build on the engine; makes me wonder if something like Minecraft might be possible, which I'd probably play more than a shooter, then
again I ran a real Minecraft server and that thing hogged memory like a beast, so maybe that's a bad idea.

The other tangent that this door has led me to explore is ANSI music, Sp3kDer has a bit of pointless logic devoted to music, including the "Piano roll" / "Guitar hero style" falling notes on the splash screen. It's pretty much begging to be broken out into its own "Keytar Hero" or something game.

Right now I'm banging out a quick utility door I've been sitting on for awhile idea wise that is sort of a modern calendar for BBS that syncs
with iCal and google calendars. But the main idea is to maybe have a shared BBS event calendar (as well as personal or bbs level calendars)
to direct users to one BBS or experience for some sort of time-boxed event, maybe also opening up a telnet-gateway (WIP). But also works
like normal calendar sync too.

It is really really really good - I didn't realize you released the engine??? Where can I find it - is there a github?

I'm pushing everyone to go checkout futureland.today:23 for more than one reason - really fooking cool what yer building over there, Hm.



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Re: Re: sp3kDer: First person shooter CP437 true color door game, multipla
By: paulie420 to Hm Derdoc on Tue Jun 23 2026 08:12 pm

It is really really really good - I didn't realize you released the engine??? Where can I find it - is there a github?

Yeah, the source code is all open https://github.com/hmderdoc/spekder - I wouldn't say it's like an "engine" in the sense like
a major 3D engine has with tons of fancy API's but I guess it is easily forkable, ask an AI coding agent for help and it'd be
able to make easy work of extending it with say an adventure mode, new skins, new scenery, etc. There's also an embeded map
editor in the game buried in the OPTIONS which I haven't used much, but the idea is a sort of no-code gamemaker - the basics
are definitely in app to build an arena. I think maybe if I could add NPC dialogues plus the things that go along with that to
the map editor could see some amusing stuff also come out of those hypothetical custom maps/modes.

But yeah - you can install on your BBS and pluck away with the source code make new stuff. For vanilla game, you can run 1p
mode as a regular door, and point at an external lobby for multiplayer (mine works) or host your own. Let me know if you run
into any issues!

Cheers,
hm derdoc










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Re: Re: sp3kDer: First person shooter CP437 true color door game, multipla
By: paulie420 to Hm Derdoc on Tue Jun 23 2026 20:12:10

I'm pushing everyone to go checkout futureland.today...

I dropped by there the other day for the first time. Unfortunately, I only had a couple min., but what struct me right away was the the video ad as soon as you connected. While I was impressed seeing video on a BBS, being an ad didn't. This was the first BBS I'd seen carrying commercial adverts. ISOT, I do look forward to spending more time exploring.
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Yeah, the source code is all open https://github.com/hmderdoc/spekder - I wouldn't say it's like an "engine" in the sense like
a major 3D engine has with tons of fancy API's but I guess it is easily forkable, ask an AI coding agent for help and it'd be
able to make easy work of extending it with say an adventure mode, new skins, new scenery, etc. There's also an embeded map
editor in the game buried in the OPTIONS which I haven't used much, but the idea is a sort of no-code gamemaker - the basics
are definitely in app to build an arena. I think maybe if I could add
NPC dialogues plus the things that go along with that to
the map editor could see some amusing stuff also come out of those hypothetical custom maps/modes.

I <3 <3 <3 all the stuff you're doing over there, Hm. Very impressive and... keep building all the things - yer gonna have all the eyes if you do.

:P



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I'm pushing everyone to go checkout futureland.today...

I dropped by there the other day for the first time. Unfortunately, I only had a couple min., but what struct me right away was the the video
ad as soon as you connected. While I was impressed seeing video on a
BBS, being an ad didn't. This was the first BBS I'd seen carrying commercial adverts. ISOT, I do look forward to spending more time exploring. --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux

Fairly sure they're just streaming VIDEO/TV - it isn't about the 'advert' you saw, rather the tech that allows us to be trolled even when connceting ... :P

I, for one, love it!



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Re: Re: sp3kDer: First person shooter CP437 true color door game, multipla
By: paulie420 to Mortar on Wed Jun 24 2026 19:39:03

Fairly sure they're just streaming VIDEO/TV - it isn't about the 'advert' you saw, rather the tech that allows us to be trolled even when connceting

I guess it was just coincidence. I just popped over there and yep, there was a regular show going on. And as I said, I was indeed impressed with that ability.
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