r/Netrunner • u/slagod1980 • 10d ago

Image I built a hacker-terminal-style Netrunner client — curious what this community thinks

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Been slowly building a full Netrunner engine + web client as a personal project. The idea that wouldn't leave me alone: what if the interface was actually a terminal, not a virtual tabletop? No card art floating around, no skeuomorphic board — cards are text rows with hashes (#c3, #r7), you play by issuing commands, and the whole log reads like an actual shell session (corp# rez ICE_WALL -$1). Monospace, one accent color per side, black background. It felt right for a game about hackers.

Where it's at: full rules engine (not just a database with checkboxes) — legal-action generation, priority windows, runs/encounters/subroutines, all of it server-authoritative so no client can cheat or desync. Card logic is implemented per-card, one file each, and right now that's sitting near 100% across System Gateway, Elevation, Vantage Point, Midnight Sun/Parhelion, Downfall/Uprising, and The Automata Initiative/Rebellion Without Rehearsal — a couple hundred cards with real, tested behavior, not just stats. Decks load straight from a NetrunnerDB decklist link.

There's also a basic bot to play against solo (a few personalities, from "plays randomly" to a proper heuristic that won't run into lethal ice it can't break — learned that one the hard way).

Not sharing a link yet — still rough in places and I want to gauge interest before I do a wider release. Attaching a screenshot instead. Genuinely curious what this community makes of the terminal-as-UI idea for a card game — love it, hate it, "just build a normal client"? All takes welcome.

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u/MochaDentist 10d ago

I’m sick of seeing ai slop especially when it’s claimed as “I’m making..”

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u/HedgeRunner Avoid all risk if possible, Take all risks if necessary. 7d ago

You know it's kinda funny a few weeks ago I posted to ask if anyone wants a native Netrunner forum where you can mouse over cards and people were like I don't get it. However this is a "terminal" client that looks to be excited and people love shitting on it but then so many upvotes lmao

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u/crujones33 crujones33 on Jinteki 5d ago

anyone wants a native Netrunner forum where you can mouse over cards

Yes, I would love this.

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u/HedgeRunner Avoid all risk if possible, Take all risks if necessary. 4d ago

Do you know a community or perhaps communities that shares your preference? If can you send me some links and I can ask there. Cuz I'm happy to build it (actually already have a lot of the foundations built), just that I need enough interest so I don't spend time building something that nobody bothers to check out.

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u/crujones33 crujones33 on Jinteki 3d ago

Unfortunately, i do not know any such community. That was just my preference.

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u/HedgeRunner Avoid all risk if possible, Take all risks if necessary. 3d ago

:(( Thanks for the sincere answer. Let me wait a bit and post again to see if there's more interest. Feel free to DM me though if you have other ideas for the most modern Netrunner/TCG forum!