CLIace

>>> 12/2025: CLIace is shut down indefinitely, because of hosting troubles. Goodbye for now, world. ☹/

>>> 08/2025: CLIace is flipping back online. Check out the existing canvas art here or join the canvas yourself!

>>> 07/2025: CLIace is on vacation. Grab a few drinks and enjoy the summer while you can.

CLIace is a telnet multiplayer text-based canvas game(?). You can reach it within your Unix terminal.

Connect from your terminal:

telnet cliace.servebeer.com

How to Play

You control a character at the middle of your viewport, represented by a background '▊'. Other players appear as chess pieces (♔♕♖♗♘♙♚♛♜♝♞♟) on the board.

You can move with W,A,S,D and have to confirm your input with ENTER.

To place a symbol at your location input:

:place background_color,symbol,symbol_color

Example:

:place red,?,white

This will place a '?' at your location.

Recommendations:

- Use a monospace "Nerd" font in your terminal with full unicode compatibility in your terminal like ttf-meslo-nerd.

- Use a modern unix terminal. For Windows try Tabby.

- Set your terminal size to at least 94x39 symbols.