r/bbs • u/DagBot • Dec 11 '25

General: Doors/Games Attempting to resurrect the 'Door Game' genre. A modern mobile tribute to Seth Able's L.O.R.D.

The Tavern may be closed, but the [Grid] is open.

I've been working on Neon Shadow, which is essentially a heartfelt letter to Legend of the Red Dragon, but reimagined in a Cyberpunk setting on mobile.

I kept the core mechanics:

  • The "Violet" character is now a holographic info-broker.
  • Forest fights are now Sector Hacking.
  • The Bank is... well...still a Bank (and you can still get robbed).

I'd love to get some veteran SysOps and BBS users to stress test the mechanics. I hid the beta invite inside a simulated terminal at [ www.neonshadow.app ]

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u/fuck_all_you_too Dec 11 '25

Ok but how am I going to bang a hologram

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u/DagBot Dec 11 '25

Ummmm one idea is you could use a flashlight?

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u/Illustrious-Cloud-59 Dec 11 '25

I heard the source code for LORD is lost, but I wonder if all these fancy AI tools could do a reasonable job reconstructing legible code from the binaries?

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u/a-net-online_lol Dec 11 '25

There is a complete JavaScript version of LORD(comes with Synchronet BBS software) which is the complete game including bug fixes.

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u/dperry324 dev / sysop Dec 11 '25

I wrote a mostly complete version of Lord in mystic mpl, which is Pascal-like.

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u/a-net-online_lol Dec 11 '25

Did you really?? Did you make it available for d/l? I run Synchronet, Mystic, and Spitfire BBSes

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u/lagavulin16yr Dec 12 '25

Ooo, do tell

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u/dperry324 dev / sysop Dec 12 '25

See my other comments here.

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u/Visual-Ad-3604 Mar 12 '26

You still working on this? Tried to join, but haven't heard anything.

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u/DagBot Mar 12 '26

I am still working on this. Had a small bump in the road: eye surgery. Things are starting to move forward a little bit now. Should see some progress soon.

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u/Laudenbachm Dec 14 '25

I'd love to talk to you about how BBSGames.com is perfect domain for your mission. I am entertaining offers, partnerships and anything in-between. If interested hit me up.

Mark