Immortal Barons is a turn-based strategy game for the terminal. You rule a barony in a ruined, post-apocalyptic
world. You buy land, feed your people, build an army, and fight rival empires. The goal is to have the highest
net worth when the turns run out, or to conquer everyone else.
The game is written in Go. It is an independent remake, inspired by the 1990s BBS door game Barren Realms
Elite.
Early work in progress. Immortal Barons is not ready for real play-testing or inter-BBS (IBBS) play yet.
Mechanics are still changing.
This is a game I'm working on.
Immortal Barons
https://github.com/andy5995/immortal-barons
This is a game I'm working on.
Immortal Barons
https://github.com/andy5995/immortal-barons
Dumas Walker wrote to Andy Alt <=-
Sounds very interesting. Keep us up to date on your progress, in particular when it is ready for "live" BBS testing.
Mike
Shurato wrote to Andy Alt <=-
Will it support winsockets? That seems to be the trickiest part for
door developers...
Sounds very interesting. Keep us up to date on your progress, in particular when it is ready for "live" BBS testing.
Sure... I setup a Mystic BBS today and added it as a door. Worked pretty well.
As for when it's ready for "live" testing, do you mean when all the known bugs are worked out? It's playable now, but some of the math may be off. Pretty soon, I'll need more feedback about that. And there's a couple dip options that haven't been implemented yet. Basically if you're just curious, you might want to set it up as a door (https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/door-setup/) and play a few turns. Otherwise, I'll certainly remember to post here when it's more developed.
Dumas Walker wrote to Andy Alt <=-
Sorry I think I read something wrong and had the impression that you didn't really think it was ready for others to be installing yet. ;)
I am curious enough that I will try to grab a copy in the next couple
of days.
Dumas Walker wrote to Andy Alt <=-
Sorry I think I read something wrong and had the impression that you didn't really think it was ready for others to be installing yet. ;) I am curious enough that I will try to grab a copy in the next couple of days.
Not your fault, I think I wasn't too clear. So... I would say it's not ready enough for regular players. They may find very unwanted design problems after a few days into a game. At this point, if a sysop is curious about the game and wants to try it for the purpose of reporting bugs, general feedback, UX problems (I do look and test for these myself so they should be rare at this point), then I would encourage installing Immortal Barons as a door that's not visible to other users. For players who are curious, I would say, give it a try, but don't plan on having a long game yet.
Shurato wrote to Andy Alt <=-
There is a snapshot binary available! I got the Win32 version. It appears to be UTF-8 Instead of CP-437, though.
Shurato wrote to Andy Alt <=-
There is a snapshot binary available! I got the Win32 version. It appears to be UTF-8 Instead of CP-437, though.
Thank you for the report. I've pushed a fix and new snapshots are available. There is also a document now at https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/charset/
You probably won't need to read that though, Immortal Barons should just work with cp437 encoding on your BBS automatically.
Shurato wrote to Andy Alt <=-
There is a snapshot binary available! I got the Win32 version. It appears to be UTF-8 Instead of CP-437, though.
Thank you for the report. I've pushed a fix and new snapshots are available. There is also a document now at https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/charset/
You probably won't need to read that though, Immortal Barons should just work with cp437 encoding on your BBS automatically.
Immortal Barons is now available in the "D"oors menu on Legends of Yesteryear.
Geri Atricks wrote to All on 09/08/2026 15:28 <=-
Immortal Barons is now available in the "D"oors menu on Legends of Yesteryear. ---
Immortal Barons is now available in the "D"oors menu on Legends of Yesteryear.
Are you in a league?
Geri Atricks wrote to All on 09/08/2026 15:28 <=-
Immortal Barons is now available in the "D"oors menu on Legends of Yesteryear. ---
Dumas, I released v0.0.9 of Immortal Barons today. Non-IBBS play is very stable. No resets have been required for the past few versions and I don't anticipate any in the near future. I can pretty comfortably recommend it now
for your users to play on your BBS.
https://github.com/andy5995/immortal-barons/releases/tag/v0.0.9
Immortal Barons is now available in the "D"oors menu on Legends of Yesteryear. ---
I left some feedback to All on your board a few days ago. Trying to send feedback to "sysop" returned unknown user.
When I log in, I get a stream of info, that looks similar to this output:
Dumas, I released v0.0.9 of Immortal Barons today. Non-IBBS play is very stable. No resets have been required for the past few versions and I don't anticipate any in the near future. I can pretty comfortably recommend it now
for your users to play on your BBS.
https://github.com/andy5995/immortal-barons/releases/tag/v0.0.9
Dumas, I released v0.0.9 of Immortal Barons today. Non-IBBS play is very stable. No resets have been required for the past few versions and I don't anticipate any in the near future. I can pretty comfortably recommend it now
for your users to play on your BBS.
https://github.com/andy5995/immortal-barons/releases/tag/v0.0.9
Dumas, I released v0.0.9 of Immortal Barons today. Non-IBBS play is very
Dumas Walker wrote to andy5995 on 09/18/2026 19:04 <=-
I don't have a github account (don't need one) so I cannot post issues there. While trying to fix my SSH issue, I found another one.
2026-09-18 13:49:24 drop file parse failed: path="/home/bbs/Public/Scorpio/var/scorpio/node1/door32.sys" format="doorsys" err=DOOR.SYS too short: 11 lines, want >=21 2026-09-18 13:51:05 drop file parse failed: path="/home/bbs/Public/Scorpio/var/scorpio/node1/door32.sys" format="dorinfo" err=DORINFO1.DEF too short: 11 lines, want >=12
When I set the game to use DOOR.SYS or DORINFO1.DEF, it tries to read
the DOOR32.SYS file instead and finds it to be too short to be the type
of drop file I requested.
immortal-barons: door32.sys does not parse as DOOR.SYS (DOOR.SYS too short: >11 lines, want >=21)
Geri Atricks wrote to andy5995 on 09/18/2026 17:04 <=-
Dumas, I released v0.0.9 of Immortal Barons today. Non-IBBS play is very
I'm currently running immortal-barons-v0.0.10-linux-amd64.tar.gz
according to the file that I downloaded.
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If you change the command to run the door using a different dropfile, you first have to use -set-dropfile so Immortal Barons knows which dropfile to read.
But the error message you got from IB was wrong, so that's fixed. It should be
more specific now, something like
immortal-barons: door32.sys does not parse as DOOR.SYS (DOOR.SYS too short:
11 lines, want >=21)
As for the problem with ssh, I've added a fix for that but haven't tested with
the same BBS software you are using. It's been working when I ssh to synchronet when I play it on X-bit and uniX-bit bbs.
Could you try the latest snapshot?
https://github.com/andy5995/immortal-barons/releases/tag/snapshot
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