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Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack
chromatic writes "Howard Wen has written two pieces on Falcon's Eye (an alternate interface for Nethack). The first is a description of Falcon's Eye and its features. The second is an interview with Jaakko Peltonen, the project's creator."
Put down your crack pipes, your fat sappy, your smack, even your nose candy...there is a new drug in town...err old drug...err new and improved drug.
When you find my body dead over the keyboard with nothing but coke cans and pizza boxes just tell my parents I love them.
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I think that this has got to be the only text base video game that works better with a video card that supports hardware acceleration.
Now even people with dyslexia can play nethack!
NetHack with a mouse?!
How the hell are we supposed to get n00bz to use h, j, k, and l to move the cursor, the way God intended?
This is all the work of some EMACS d00dz, I tell ya.
Next thing you know, they'll release Omega 1.00 with a graphical interface and call it Duke Nukem Forever.
The nethack.org site has a willwheaton link. It always seems every slashdot story has 6 degrees separation between the article and willwheaton.com. ;)
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
He took a 1970's era game and made it look like a 1980's era game, in 2001!! Now that's what I call progress!
I've written a 3D wrapper around the original pong code, and it looks like real tennis players, motion captured and all.
They look kind of awkward running back and forth at the service line though.
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In all seriousness, that's pretty cool. I could never get into Nethack. I like my rpgs with plenty of story.
I wish someone would approach the complexity/freedom of Nethack and combine it with a strong story. Of course, freedom and story are often at odds in games (Torment has an awesome story but it's quite linear, Nethack is the complete opposite)
Can anyone recommend some games that combine these two ingredients nicely?
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Isometric 3D display? Mouse-driven?
Obviously these rogues have just ripped off Diablo.
Falcon's Eye rocked.
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John Dailey's bought out some of the best BBS doors --- BRE, FE, global wars, global backgammon, all the cool stuff!
And don't tell me LORD was good -- it was a piece of trash only 12 year olds could like
BRE... now _THAT_ was a great game! I had a lawyer who used to dial up my board every day at 9:30am when he got to the office to play BRE for an hour before actually doing any work
MMmm.... makes me miss the BBS days. Except that now I make a lot more money and have an awesome girlfriend.
--NBVB
i'm sorry, but falcon's eye still doesn't look right. everyone knows that if they ever made a true 3d version of nethack is would have ascii text characters fully rendered in 3d. i'm still waiting for a 3d hethack where i'm a 3d ampersand running away from a fully rendered 'B'.
when religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, governments will resort to real opiates.
Yes, I know there are a few decent Windows games, but most of them seem to have been of lower quality in all but looks.
Life sucks, but death doesn't put out at all....
--Thomas J. Kopp
Heh.
:)
Actually, it's wil wheaton dot net
Now I feel like I've arrived.
Now I have to go play Net Hack for several hours, just to die in the mines while blind.
And Mrs. Wheaton will go to bed alone, again.