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Hydra

Hydra plays GemStone IV, Simutronics’ text game. One Hydra holds every character you play at once: each has its own window, or none, and all of them keep playing while Hydra rests in the background. A phone or another computer on your home network shows the same characters on Hydra’s web page, and the HydraFE app plays on an iPhone or iPad by itself.

A play window: the story on the left; vitals, hands, the room and the minimap down the right

Downloads

Every release is on the releases page:

  • Windows: hydra-windows-x86_64.zip
  • macOS (Apple silicon): hydra-macos.dmg, or the bare hydra-macos-arm64.zip
  • Linux: hydra-linux-x86_64.tar.gz, for glibc 2.39 or newer
  • iPhone and iPad: HydraFE, through TestFlight

The guide’s pages are coming, group by group: getting started, the play window, playing, and the phone and web page. The API reference is the whole of Hydra’s code, documented, for anyone writing against it.