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2006 NetHack Tournament

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the may-those-who-are-about-to-die-salute-you dept.

robin writes "With another Halloween here and gone, the fall NetHack season is open once again. The 8th annual /dev/null/nethack Tournament started at midnight on November 1st, and will last through the rest of the month. You may wish to read the instructions and see what trophies are available this year before registering to compete."

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  1. Re:Just started by wertarbyte · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are many gui frontends for nethack, I especially like this one for my Nokia 770 :-)

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  2. Re:Just started by pla · · Score: 3, Informative

    If something like this could ever be made graphical I would eat it alive.

    Although I think, based on that statement, that you might not quite "get" the charm of NetHack...

    Falcon's Eye does exactly what you ask for, a fully (isometric) 3d interface on top of core game engine.

  3. Re:Porn by Fjornir · · Score: 2, Informative
    That's hawt.

    And whoever modded this offtopic has clearly never played nethack.

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  4. Re:I *heart* nethack by AdamTrace · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think completing the Gnomish Mines and Sokoban are good goals for a newbie player... Afterwards follow the Quest, Medusa, and the Castle...

  5. If stuck... by ZzzzSleep · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you need some help, here are some of the best places to visit.
    rec.games.roguelike.nethack.
    Dylan O'Donnell's nethack spoiler page.

    Enjoy and good luck everybody!

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  6. Re:Just started by hurfy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Semi-informative perhaps...

    Appears Falcon's eye is a couple versions old with no updates in many years :(
    Vulture's Eye is a *nix GUI replacement for current version.

    Appears you have to hack em together yourself for a current windows GUI :(

    Darn sounded interesting...always liked the play of nethack and moria.

  7. Re:Just started by pla · · Score: 2, Informative

    Appears you have to hack em together yourself for a current windows GUI :(

    Strangely enough, thanks to this Slashdot FP rekindling my ancient almost-beaten addiction to NetHack, I discovered Vuture shortly after I posted.

    The newest version (2.1.0) actually supports Windows directly, and runs windowed as well (Falcon's would only run fullscreen). You can grab it from here.

  8. Re:Just started by HanClinto · · Score: 2, Informative
    I see that many other people here have suggested Vultures/Falcon's Eye. That one's okay, but I don't like the fixed isometric perspective or the way it handles mouse navigation. My personal favorite has been [url=http://www.darkarts.co.za/projects/noegnud/]n oeGNUd[/url] -- it's got fairly recent builds for Windows, the text-based pseudo-graphical tile sets that are available are well done (like a little red "d" with a white tip for a fox). I also really like the way it does 3d, with letting you spin the camera around with the mouse and check out the field of play from different angles. I highly recommend it.

    Happy hacking!

  9. On the contrary, by patio11 · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... "eat it alive" is exactly the NetHack mentality. Just don't do it to a cockatrice. Bad idea unless you've been polymorphed into something with immunity to stoning, have a ring of anti-petrification, etc. Oh, don't eat Pestilence alive, either. Save that for trolls, it stops them from regenerating. (No, really, I swear: this is Informative, not Funny.)

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