Telnet Pong, in x64 Assembly

This is Pong, the well known classic game, playable over telnet, implemented for Linux in x64 assembly. This implementation makes heavy use of Linux-only features to make implementation easier, in particular:

• epoll: For the game loop. It handles connection requests, input events, and game loop ticks.
• timerfd: What other better way to implement game loop ticks than via a file descriptor-aware method! Thanks to timerfd, I can let epoll take care of that too.

Compiling

Assuming you have make and gcc install, just run make.

A Nix flake is also provided. If you have Nix installed, you can run nix build.

Disclaimer

This program was written for a bonus assignment during my first year of university. The assignment was to make any game in assembly, so I thought why not make it work over the network too...