your data center tycoon playable in the terminal!
play.ronakbuilds.tech
(requires cloudflared)
$ ssh play.ronakbuilds.tech
One-time setup
The game is served through a Cloudflare Tunnel. Do this once and you can connect any time.
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Install cloudflared
$ brew install cloudflared
> winget install --id Cloudflare.cloudflared
$ curl -L -o cloudflared https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64 && chmod +x cloudflared && sudo mv cloudflared /usr/local/bin/
Or grab a package for your distro from Cloudflare's downloads page.
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Add this to your SSH config
The file is
~/.ssh/config(on Windows,C:\Users\<you>\\.ssh\config). Create it if it doesn't exist.Host play.ronakbuilds.tech ProxyCommand cloudflared access ssh --hostname %h
On macOS or Linux you can append it in one go:
$ printf 'Host play.ronakbuilds.tech\n ProxyCommand cloudflared access ssh --hostname %%h\n' >> ~/.ssh/config
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Connect
$ ssh play.ronakbuilds.tech
No SSH key or password needed. The game has its own login. Pick a username and you're in.
How to play
Start with $500. Buy servers. Watch the money roll in every second you're connected.
- 1 Name your data center
- Give it a name worth bragging about.
- 2 Buy servers
- Type a server number and press Enter. Each extra copy of the same server costs 15% more.
- 3 View infrastructure
- See what you own and what it earns. M goes back.
- 4 Exit
- Progress saves automatically every second.
| # | Server | Cost | Income |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Budget VPS | $100 | $2/s |
| 2 | Compute Node | $600 | $14/s |
| 3 | GPU Cluster | $3,000 | $80/s |
| 4 | AI Datacenter | $15,000 | $450/s |
| 5 | Quantum Farm | $80,000 | $2,500/s |
| 6 | Orbital Cloud | $400,000 | $15,000/s |
Troubleshooting
- Permission denied (publickey)
- The SSH config entry is missing or misspelled, so you reached the host machine instead of the game. Add it, run
ssh-keygen -R play.ronakbuilds.tech, and connect again. - remote error: tls: internal error
- Your computer has an old DNS record cached. On macOS run
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder. - cloudflared: command not found
- cloudflared isn't installed or isn't on your
PATH. Redo step 1. - Garbled screen
- Make your terminal at least 80×24 and reconnect.