10th Year of the International Nethack Tournament

Dr. Zowie writes "The 10th annual Nethack Tournament just started over at nethack.devnull.net, so put on your Hawaiian shirt, grab an expensive camera, and head for the dungeon. The tourney runs through the month of November each year, with volunteer game servers dotted around the world. Fewer than 1% of contestants actually finish the game by retrieving the Amulet of Yendor and ascending to demigodhood, but take heart: there are many prizes for intermediate goals, and prizes for team effort. For those too young to remember games older than Halo, Nethack is the apotheosis of the Roguelike genre of role-playing games, rendered in ASCII. Gameplay is phenomenally complex, and the game is somewhat sadistic; there are no 'checkpoints,' so if you manage to kill yourself somewhere in the dungeon you must start over from the beginning. The dungeons are quasi-randomly generated, so every game is different."

Comments

Great!

[morgan_greywolf]

Good luck to both of you still playing nethack!

I've said this before but...

[slaker]

I ascended with a wishless tourist once, and I consider that more of an accomplishment than my bachelor's degree.

Re:three four three

[tzot]

Well, they still answer to bug reports. Sometimes :-)

The last update to the bugs page has been in August.

But what's taking them so long for a new version, nobody knows.

I've heard that they had issues switching to a new graphics engine.