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."

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Re:Relation to Rogue?

[EllF]

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.