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/dev/null NetHack Tournament 2005 Starts Tomorrow
Elitist Snob writes "Registrations for the 7th Annual /dev/null nethack tournament are now open. Time to start cursing at how unfair the Random Number Generator has been to you today. (Or you can just start another holy war about which interface is the best.)" All you folks who shake your canes and say that these new fangled threedee graphics aren't needed, this is your chance to shine. Update: 10/31 16:13 GMT by Z : Thanks to HanClinto for pointing out that if you're new to the tourney you need to wait until Midnight tonight to sign up. Previous year's players can sign up now.
Three D??? That's a lot of dragons to have to worry about.
I actually prefer playing with tiles instead of the old, wanky ASCII graphics. Not having found a compelling case to use ASCII, i use tiles. Unless ofcourse, i want to slack at work and have to use an ssh connection to my nethack shell.
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
It isn't about hacking. It's more of the Hack 'n Slash sort of thing. Goofy fantasy gaming.
And it doesn't have threedee graphics. In the 'purest' incarnation, it has no graphics whatsoever. Instead it uses an ASCII.
Ah, heck with it. Check the wikipedia entry.
Registration is only open for those who where were registered in previous years, and are re-activating their accounts for this year.
:)
If you are new to the tournament (like me), then you have to wait until midnight tonight to register.
Happy hacking!
Way to go. Start the tournament on a new moon.
That should be interesting..
For the unitiated: the game checks the date and time for various things in the game. example: you get -1 luck if you start playing on a friday 13th. Undead do double damage from 00:00 to 00:59.
On a new moon, beware of stoning.
Nouvelles de jeux et technologies en français. TC
The genre is DND style fantasy
The programmers added a huge amount of flexibility into the game, you can eat things you kill, you can weild anything as a weapon, from a sword, to a can of tinned beef. You can dip things into your potions.
There were/are addicts. Some of the thrill of the game is that you couldnt build an invunerable character. The chances of death in game were almost certain. Even with careful fighting, you end up bumping into some sort of owlbear or falling into a spiked pit. You can die from eating bad food, or from starving, or overeating. You can cast spells drunk or halucinating, but it probably wont work right. You can have a pet, and train it. The programmers have though of a almost everything.
Storm
ok there goes my week.
You see here the corpse of a server.
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DYWYPI?
I have ascended a Valkyrie, a Barbarian, an Archeologist, a Priest, a Wizard and a Tourist. Here's the secret about Nethack: it's not that hard.
Woah now, did I just say that? Granted, there is a lot, and I mean a LOT, to learn. It has taken me years to get to the point where I can say that.
But once you get to that point, you start seeing how the game really gives you many possible escapes. Just remembering that you can pray to get out of trouble will prevent a huge number of deaths. Finding strategies for early wishes, keeping a good stock of food, learning the Sokoban solutions, finding out about Elbereth, finding good equipment-gaining strategies, learning the ways to identify and bless stuff, knowing when to fight and when (and how) to run, and most importantly, avoiding trivial errors like stepping into water like you did. Nethack characters tend to get much more survivable as they proceed; if that character of yours hadn't died at the Castle, you would probably have stood a reasonable at winning, assuming you had a good ascension kit put together and knew how to handle the special situations remaining in the game.
There are a lot of things to learn in Nethack, but there are not an infinite number of them. No one ascends their first Nethack character, or even their 40th. But with spoilers, newsgroup reading (rec.games.roguelike.nethack) and practice, it is certainly possible to ascend in nearly every game, and once you learn all the tricks, it could almost be termed easy.
That's the point where you start playing conducts,
special challenges designed to make the game harder: Atheist. Vegetarian. Foodless. Pacifist.
You may also begin playing Slash'em, the super-deluxe Nethack variant with three times MORE stuff in it. And the process begins again....