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Rebels in the sky is a P2P multiplayer game about crews of space pirates roaming the galaxy to play basketball against each other. It's basically a basketball managerial game with some pirate-y stuff. It's a P2P game with no central server, built on top of libp2p. Players interaction are limited to playing games against each other and trading pirates.

The game runs as a terminal application, meaning that you just need to run it from your terminal.

You can try the game over ssh without installing: `ssh frittura.org -p 3788`

My server is not very powerful and there is a limit to the number of concurrent players, so if you like it I would appreciate it if you could install it (https://github.com/ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky?tab=readme-ov-f...) and run it locally :)

Here is a trailer (not of the last version, so some little things are different): https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aaa02f04-06db-4da...

As an Italian, some of the player names are hilarious.

The game seems really cool and honestly really impressive, but it's hard to understand what you're supposed to do at any moment.

You have a typo here https://github.com/ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky/blob/17f3e2a21e...

Also, the Italian-food sounding names are hilarious, well played :)

6 hours agoby riffraff

In case the trailer link doesn't work, here's another: https://rebels.frittura.org/demo_v1.0.18.mp4

8 hours agoby discoinverno

So much fun! Works fine on windows terminal too! mouse, keyb, colours -- all good.

5 hours agoby x0n

Those planet/satellite animations are absolutely gorgeous!

6 hours agoby kataklasm

My server can't handle all the traffic, guess it's an opportunity to show that the game doesn't need a central authority to keep working.

I created another relayer and ssh node on 85.214.130.204, you can either ssh to this machine `ssh 85.214.130.204 -p 3788` (but the relaying won't work as it tries to connect to the old server), or start your local client with the flag `rebels -i 85.214.130.204` to specify the alternative relayer node ip address.

6 hours agoby discoinverno

Please tell a story about the music ya'll chose for this, it's incredible.

5 hours agoby bensmoif

- Space pirates?? - You know, pirates! but in space!!

5 hours agoby nnx

One question out of curiosity: Which library did u use for the graphics?

6 hours agoby bartzokas

Interesting idea to have a completely p2p game! What cross-user interaction do you have in your game?

12 hours agoby dortmunddance

Just curious, how are the results of the match decided? How much player agency is there?

12 hours agoby balbo321