Command Line Week Roguelike Contest

What is this?

In honor of Command Line Week, this is a small Roguelike tournament featuring Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Join the server to compete in the contest. At the end of the week, the 3 top scoring players win!

What are the prizes?

  1. First Place $30 SparkFun certificate
  2. Second Place $20 SparkFun certificate
  3. Third Place $10 SparkFun certificate

Use the prizes to buy cool things at SparkFun.com. Winners will be the top three scoring players at the end of Command Line Week as of October 19, 2022 8 AM Eastern US. Prizes will be distributed to the winning players via ssh.

Important Note: The xibb player is not eligible for prizes, and is on the scoreboard just for fun.

How do I play?

Generate yourself a public-private SSH key pair, then head over to the signup page to join. Pick a username that you'll use to log in and play and provide your SSH public key.

Resources for newbies

SSH Keys Quickstart

You'll need a SSH key pair to play. If you don't have one, or want to generate a new one just for this competition, you'll need to run a few commands:
  1. ssh-keygen -t ed25519 - generates a new ed25519 keypair.
  2. You'll be prompted for a path and filename, along with some other information. Choose something meaningful, like roguelike_contest_key
  3. At the end you'll have roguelike_contest_key and roguelike_contest_key.pub. The .pub is your public key that you'll upload here.
  4. Visit the signup page and submit your public key (.pub) along with your desired username.
  5. Wait a few minutes for the registration process to run, and then log in with ssh -p 1337 -i roguelike_contest_key your_username@roguery.xibb.net - note that you'll want to supply the key file name WITHOUT .pub, which is the private half!
  6. Enjoy!

What are the high scores?

See near-real-time scores over at the scoreboard page.