18xx Transcript Database

A repository that hosts game transcripts from 18xx.games.

Features

• A growing collection of plain game transcripts of various game variants (e.g., 1830, 1889).
• Consistent file structure making it easy to iterate and analyse.

Usage

Download the tarball database.tar.gz and extract it on a desired location on your machine. Suggested location is ~/.database18xx.

Database structure

Each game variant has a corresponding folder, named equal to its 18xx variant. Within that folder, individual transcripts are saved as .txt files in a folder called equal to the transcript name.

database.tar.gz
├───1817
│   ├───1830_123456
│   │   └───1830_123456.txt
│   └───...
└───1830
    ├───1830_123456
    │   └───1830_123456.txt
    └───...

Transcript names follow a consistent naming convention:

<game_type>_<game_id>

• game_type: Abbreviation of the 18xx variant (e.g., 1830, 1889)
• game_id: The 6-digit game ID