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The Currency Traders Test Game is UP!

Log in to the new HUGE game

(command line: telnet teotwawkigames.com 23)

Log in to the old test game
(command line: telnet teotwawkigames.com 21)
 

You are a currency trader... and the four most common forms of money are gold chains, alcohol, weapons, and silver coins -- but it's risky to haul this stuff around. That's where you and your gang come in! You'll carry these valuable items around to the most dangerous places and trade them to people who are cautiously lying low. You'll keep your profits in small silver coins -- because it's easy to divide up that way.

There's a Mall in block #1. There may be more in blocks 2001, 4001, 6001... They all sell the same crap, but local gambling limits do vary a bit. You can buy special devices at Malls; buy 3 or more of any one device type and you will gain a useful new ability.

You earn silver coins trading currencies at shops. You can make even more by looting an unguarded warehouse and dumping those goods for pure profit.

The city is huge, but in every 2000-block area there's an airport connecting to another city. Cities have varying road layouts and levels of wealth.
 

This is an old-school, no-graphics strategy game. All you need is a telnet client to play -- and every modern operating system comes with one. It's free and you can play anonymously. Just choose a name and a password and log in. If you don't know what to do, just press your H key for a Hint and a context-sensitive Tip.

This game is played in a persistent world where whatever you build, buy, or otherwise 'acquire' in the game will still be there tomorrow. Unless you make an enemy of another player, that is. PVP (player-versus-player) is always enabled here so other players can attack your deployed fortifications -- or even, heaven forbid, you.

This is a turn-based game that can be played any time of the day, night, or week. Each player is issued a certain amount of energy (turns) per day that is used to travel, trade, or play at the arcade in the several Malls. If you don't use your turns, they accumulate for as much as several months -- so there's no disadvantage to skipping a day or even a few weeks.

If you see an unfamiliar object, click H a few times until the context-sensitive Tips tell you what it's good for.


Raspberry Pi Version!

To play the game on a Raspberry Pi, go here.

Download Currency Traders for the Raspberry Pi!
readme.txt: Four quick steps to running Currency Traders on Raspberry Pi
ct100db55d.bz2 (100K sector game (large)) [80K download]
Note: If your browser doesn't uncompress the file, you can uncompress the program this way:
bunzip2 ct100db55d.bz2
Note: Some browsers refuse to download executable files by default. Therefore, these programs are not executable and must be marked as executable like this:
chmod 755 ct100db55d


If you have tried the 100,000 sector game above and understand how large that is -- or you have hundreds of players -- here's a much larger game binary:
ct500db55d.bz2 (500K sector game (huge)) [80K download]


Statically-linked versions (bigger downloads):
ct100db55.bz2 (100K sector game (static)) [350K download]
ct500db55.bz2 (500K sector game (static)) [350K download]


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