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Falcon's Eye: a Make-over for Nethack

Posted by michael on from the rogue-still-the-best dept.

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."

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  1. glHack by the_real_tigga · · Score: 4, Informative

    Falcon's Eye does have a brother in glHack.

    Although top-down instead of isometric view, I find it much nicer.

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  2. Re:Relation to Rogue? by EllF · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nethack is a game very much in the tradition of Rogue, so much so that it (and its bretheren like Crawl, Angband, and Omega, to name a few) are called "roguelikes".

    A roguelike generally has the following features:

    • Randomly generated dungeon levels.
    • Monsters with substantial abilities, often the same sort as the player might get.
    • An "identification" item system, where the more you play, the more your character knows. (For example: a "purple potion" at the game's beginning, after you learn what it does, might become a "Purple potion of Invisibility."
    • Multipurpose items: throw that purple potion at an Orc, and it vanishes. Poof.
    • Substantial character death. No saving, except to stop playing for the night and to come back in the morning. When you die, you _die_.
    • HARD. You'll die. A lot. ("YASD" == Yet Another Stupid Death.) And you know? You'll keep coming back.
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  3. Re:Hardware accelerated text game by fader · · Score: 4, Informative
    What about blind people?? Is there a speech synthesized version?

    From the Nethack Guidebook (ships with at least the official sources from nethack.org):
    NetHack can be set up to use only standard ASCII characters for making maps of the dungeons. This makes the MS-DOS versions of NetHack completely accessible to the blind who use speech and/or Braille access technologies.
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