Release: Beyond the Iron Cycle

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FULL RELEASE : Beyond the Iron Cycle

After years of development and testing, i am very proud to fully release the free&libre storydriven retrostyle-cyberpunk network-sandbox game Beyond the Iron Cycle.

This is a full release (not some kind of beta-testing). The game client is fully stable, well tested and rocksolid.

The game client is in fact a unix-style networking tool, utilizing the full power of the unix-networking-meta. It is pure text and fully decentralized (forming an anarchistic, non-hierarchic game-network-world - pretty cool retro-cyberpunk stuff)

The game client is 100% free software (and as POSIX-complient as desirable) and all dependencies are 100% libre software: packed in a nice container-app which runs on every Linux-OS around (the client also runs on BSD but not as the container-app).

The game is not too exclusive, but you need a bit of experience as a terminal-user and some knowledge about networks (ports, http-server, tor, i2p, proxies) - also you need patience and iniative-motivation.

This game will not be released in a continually; it will be released by weekly limited downloads [ release-fountain ] here - until a certain threshold is reached.

Q&A:

Q What app? A The “app” is a bubblewrap-chroot containing all scripts and dependencies. My sources are in there, the rest is Alpine-Linux. You need a x86_64 Linux-kernel and bwrap installed (part of everly major distro).

Q What? no hosting? A Later, when the release-fountain is closed, all stuff will be done in the anarchistic non-hierarchic game-network itself: updates, news, announcements and so on.

Q Is it secure? A It is very minimalistic and relies on stable and well established dependencies; which are also minimalistic (afap). The Alpine-bins of the container are small and based on libc-musl.

Q What about the BSD's? A The core client runs on BSD (openBSD tested). Dowload the container app and check the DOC-folder.

Q What about 32bit? A Download the container app and read the regular README to install the client and the dependencies manually.

Q What about Android/IOS? A The client works on Android [app: termux] and IOS [app: ish]. Download the container app and read the regular README to install the client and the dependencies manually.

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