LINUXGAMES

While this isn’t, strictly speaking, a game, it is game-based and interesting: L3DGEWorld (thanks Rock, Paper, Shotgun) is a network visualization tool based on OpenArena, the open source game that uses the ioquake3 engine:

The system allows admins to look at the network architecture as if it were a visible architecture, and pick up stats and behaviours from the interface. Actually using lightning guns to fry the connections of intruding miscreants is still a long way off, but it demonstrates that William Gibson’s fantasy is far from unobtainable.

Currently, access control lists are created by shooting network elements; there’s also a PDF documenting the project’s I/O spec for the development of new functionality.

This isn’t the first time an id Software game has been made into an administration tool: many years ago, the psDooM project was announced, which allows sysadmins to shoot unruly processes.

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