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NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait (nethack.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For the past 12 years, NetHack 3.4.3 has been the most recent version of the classic roguelike dungeon exploration game. On 7 December 2015, the official NetHack DevTeam announced the release of NetHack 3.6.0. While the release contains some new features, the most exciting part of the announcement is perhaps the DevTeam's move toward a more open development model: "We've migrated our internal source repository to Git, with plans of providing a publicly available 'current maintenance version' in the future." Bugzilla will be used for defect tracking.

NetHack 3.6.0 is dedicated to the memory of the author Terry Pratchett. Besides the Tourist character class inspired by his stories, NetHack now contains "a huge number of quotes from many of the Discworld novels."

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  1. Celebrate!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This calls for a round of the NetHack Song!!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlPgy0ysoJk

  2. Re:has the lawyer knocking yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Terry was a fan of Nethack. I think his surviving family members will have no objection against honoring his memory in a game he loved.

  3. Re:has the lawyer knocking yet? by silentcoder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quotes are protected under fair use principles in all Berne Convention signatory countries. They couldn't come knocking even if they did want to.

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  4. Re:VR Support by chispito · · Score: 3, Informative

    Will they be adding VR support soon?

    Yes, you can now play Nethack in VR http://www.vrdesktop.net/

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