Self-hostable projects that are just for fun?
from northernlights@lemmy.today to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 14 May 04:40
https://lemmy.today/post/52912210

Alright so my lab is pretty much functionally complete; it does everything I was hoping it would and much more.

OK so now what :D Do you know of any projects that are self-hostable and serve no functional purpose whatsoever and exist just for fun? Could be silly projects, could be games. I’d like to add a “silly things” section to my publicly facing list of web services.

For instance, I was thinking of hosting a web version of nethack. Also I enjoyed hosting a node of hypermind for a little while just because it was so silly.

#selfhosted

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dan@upvote.au on 14 May 05:03 next collapse

Game servers? linuxgsm.com. Have an Unreal Tournament 99… tournament with friends.

northernlights@lemmy.today on 14 May 05:51 next collapse

Oh that’s cool, thanks.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 14 May 09:38 collapse

What a fuckton of ads and shit on that website…

Feels awesome and a cool project to self host but visiting that URL makes me puke

gedfromgont@piefed.ca on 14 May 05:07 next collapse

I think I read recently about some emulator portal you can selfhost, would that be silly enough? Requires you to acquire ROMs though.

dan@upvote.au on 14 May 05:11 collapse

I just posted a comment about this :D

romm.app

dan@upvote.au on 14 May 05:08 next collapse

romm.app - Self hosted game ROM manager that lets you play retro games directly in the browser (using RetroArch cores compiled to WebAssembly).

retroassembly.com is a similar project.

There’s also gamevau.lt which is like a self-hosted version of Steam, for DRM-free games (like from GOG).

northernlights@lemmy.today on 14 May 05:50 collapse

I like this but since it’s on my own domain i’m going to refrain from illegal stuff.

dan@upvote.au on 14 May 06:33 next collapse

Password protect it and just let friends use it? Or have it just for yourself :D

Auster@thebrainbin.org on 14 May 10:00 collapse

Would it be a publicly available page, or accessible only for you?

If it's a public page, you could possibly host shareware games or with other licenses with a similar effect.

And there's plenty of games you can legally buy as ROMs (e.g. homebrews on Itchio), games that include ROMs in their files (e.g. River City Girls 0 on Steam, most Neo Geo releases on PC platforms and pretty much any MS-DOS game rerelease), and if you're from a region with laws not as draconian as the DMCA, there are games with ROMs embedded in their files and that can be extracted. So if it's a private page, you could go for those too.

iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app on 14 May 05:54 next collapse

I keep thinking making a magic mirror would be such a project..

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 14 May 06:13 next collapse

A website/blog

hperrin@lemmy.ca on 14 May 06:21 next collapse

There are lots of game servers you can run. I highly recommend Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart. (Yes, that’s a terrible name, but it’s a very fun game.)

warmaster@lemmy.world on 14 May 07:15 next collapse

Games on Whales

games-on-whales.github.io

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 14 May 08:32 next collapse

A fediverse instance obviously.

cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml on 14 May 10:28 next collapse

I had a World of Warcraft-server running for a while, that was quite fun.

sbeak@sopuli.xyz on 14 May 10:41 collapse

I’m running a Minecraft server for me and my sibling, and it’s been fun. I managed to get GeyserMC and Floodgate working so that Bedrock edition clients (i.e. their tablet) can connect to the world.

Little silky that there’s no Linux version of Bedrock edition to be honest, but it’s in Microsoft’s interest to keep Windows as the only option that can run both editions.