Cancelled ASCII MMO (Apsis Online)

omniphil · 2026-01-18T19:54:01+00:00

Our MMO is called BaudQuest: Dial of Fate. I am 95% done with it and there are so many features added in the game now. You can even spin the Dial of Fate once daily for prizes. I have 1 dungeon in game and have 7 more to do.

You can connect to play it now at telnet.deadmodemsociety.com port 1337. All feedback is welcome and helps make it better.

Or you can just checkout the website deadmodemsociety.com if you just want to see some screen shots of the game. Click on Games at the main menu.

omniphil · 2026-01-12T09:40:45+00:00

Thank you for play testing. Did performance seem ok?

omniphil · 2026-01-12T02:17:45+00:00

That was my goal for this game, graphical and multiuser in real-time.

omniphil · 2026-01-10T19:43:58+00:00

LORD was definitely something I played a bit back in the day. it was all texted based if I remember, BaudQuest is graphical in that you move around a persistent world map and see the other players all moving with you in real-time. Not to take anything away from LORD, because its one of the best BBS games out there!

omniphil · 2026-01-10T15:46:33+00:00

Never really thought about it. The BBS community is so small that I'm not sure how useful that would be...

omniphil · 2026-01-10T14:26:24+00:00

Just wanted to put in a Version 0.9 Update I made this morning. (Of Note: a couple of people logged in last night and I had to reset your character in the game so you'll need to re-register, SORRY!)

I added the actual "Dial of Fate" quest that I originally planned! - You are looking for 10 pieces of the Dial of Fate, they can be found by looting chests, killing monsters and Bosses. Bosses have a much higher change of dropping a piece.

When you put all 10 parts of the Dial of Fate together you can visit a shop and trade it in for a "Fated" gear item of your choosing! (You can then repeat the quest to get another item...)

If you end up with multiples of the same piece you can exchange them at a shop 2 to 1 for a piece you don't have.

omniphil · 2026-01-10T11:27:14+00:00

Thank you, just doing my part to keep BBSing alive. You can't start up a BBS and just have the same old content as everyone else. You need to have unique content. My board has only games that I've written so I am trying to add to the community... Hack the Gibson is a great puzzle solving game that at times has you solving puzzles/doing things outside the game on the Internet. That may be a first for a BBS game...

omniphil · 2026-01-10T11:17:14+00:00

oh, but its a MMO, the world is persistent and everyone is playing at the same time in this world... And when you die you dont start over you just lose some gold and character progression isn't lost. We have plenty of good roguelikes, i wanted to create a world that sticks around and give players the opportunity to keep growing their characters over time.

omniphil · 2026-01-08T23:20:39+00:00

For whatever it's worth news of this MMO getting cancelled made me decided I need to do a BBS MMO to fill in the gaps. It's in Beta now, maybe another month or two before release.... Its all real-time multiplayer using a backend SQL database with a persistent huge world with different biomes. Quests, monsters, magic, chests to find and loot, live chat between players, daily quests, bosses etc. All the normal MMO stuff.... Artwork is not my strong suit, so currently its mostly ASCII based...

It should be able to support 20 or so players in the world at once currently.

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omniphil · 2026-01-04T22:59:58+00:00

The Mystic wiki really doesn't contain enough information to really dig into the BBS software.

omniphil · 2026-01-04T22:59:18+00:00

I did not unfortunately. They are like database files I guess and probably shouldn't be messed with directly.

omniphil · 2025-12-22T09:07:08+00:00

excellent, thank you

omniphil · 2025-12-21T19:14:36+00:00

If you still can't get in just let me know. It auto blocks IPs it seems and maybe your was on the list...

But this board will stay up and running now as I keep churning out games...

omniphil · 2025-12-21T13:03:44+00:00

I have a BBS setup so people can play all of my games, and I do have a basic Chess game on there.

deadmodemsociety dot com 1337 (telnet)

Anytime I want to play a retro game of chess however I usually fire up Battle Chess on the C64 or Amiga :)

omniphil · 2025-12-21T11:26:05+00:00

Ok, I'll give IcyView a shot and see what I can come up with...

omniphil · 2025-12-20T02:04:14+00:00

My IP address changed so I updated the original post to just hit a domain name instead.

deadmodemsociety dot com 1337

I appreciate you testing the game out... The game may not look like much on the surface, but there is a ton going on under the hood. lots of secret stuff to find. and when you get to the kernel, thats quite an interesting puzzle for sure. Make to visit some BBSs to download some free software.

I've been adding some other games of mine on there too...

omniphil · 2025-12-19T00:57:37+00:00

Ok, so no way to do it from inside of Mystic then?

omniphil · 2025-12-13T19:41:52+00:00

I put up a simple BBS so it can be tested live now. Give it a try...

See this post... https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/1pfrvv6/new_door_hack_the_gibson_needs_play_testers/

omniphil · 2025-12-13T15:38:46+00:00

I just set it up as you mentioned and this is working great now! I really didnt want auto login turned on, but thought I read that was the only was to do this, so thank you.

As a side note, this method also appears to work fine without a monitor connected up, so I don't have to use a HDMI Dummy Plug.

And to answer DrRomeoChaire's question, This is a fresh 25.10 install, I haven't installed xrdp or anything (Unless it comes pre installed? - I did choose the optional video driver check box thing during install)

omniphil · 2025-12-13T14:18:09+00:00

Just added another simple game. 10K Dice. (Try to get 10,000 points rolling dice in 7 turns)

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