I just spent an hour figuring out how to force #RaspberryPi OS and #Wayland compositor into swapping the Y and Z keys so I have to correct layout for diagonal movement on a German #keyboard in #NetHack.
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#NetHack
Posts tagged #NetHack on Bluesky
Another weekend of coding... I guess I am pretty happy with the UI of the game... all elements are there.
#GameDevelopment #raylib #nethack
The two bottom "cards" are active use spells (you will have to find them) as opposed to other cards that are […]
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Well, blame it on the OG roguelikes! U can eat corpses on #Adom , #NetHack ...but not on a *band, until now xD #ZMAngband joined the club, following on the steps of @causticwarden.bsky.social and his snacking on dead foes. Oh but keep in mind food poisoning!
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Fire based stuff is in and a bunch of items as well. Gameplay seems to be evolving into some kind of cross between #Nethack and #robotron
Some system are turn based and some systems are based on real time... I like the idea. The trick is now to find a fun […]
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A screenshot of some text from Nethack, which reads: The door opens. The prisoner speaks: "I'm finally free!" n - a scroll of enchant armor. Pick a monster, object or location. You hear a chugging sound. Something speaks. "You freed me!" You hear a chugging sound.
Time for another installment of #OnlyInNethack #Nethack
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This was a failed attempt at the never hit with a wielded weapon conduct (turns out you shouldn't hold down a direction key when running through the castle and wielding a pickaxe). Still a fun ascension though!
#Nethack #Ascension
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Playing #nethack and my dog’s default name was Sirius
Found a cat and tamed it
Named it Unserius
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I recently picked up a new classic #roguelike, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup or #dcss. I am really impressed by its #qualityoflife features compared to #Angband and #Nethack, including a web client, mouse support, auto-move, and auto-fight. It really shows how a game can have a great easy-to-learn […]
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@JessTheUnstill When playing #NetHack — the oldest computer game still under active development, and essentially solitaire D&D — I always wanted to play every role (except Valkyrie) as both genders, and as every species except Dwarf (too stodgily Lawful). But the character I thought of as my […]
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![Screenshot of NetHack, a roguelike (in the original sense of "like Rogue") game using colour ASCII characters in a monospace console window to represent a top-down view of a procedurally generated dungeon level, dots and line-drawing characters for walls, letters and symbols for monsters and objects. My pet purple worm (a purple 'w') has just swallowed a Green-elf and is burrrrping contentendly through the medium of short on-screen narrative text)
Not Enough, Still Interested:
This is the bottom floor of Vlad's Tower, a dungeon branch in the late midgame, at the top of which lurks Vlad the Impaler with the candelabrum I need for the game's climactic bell-book-and-candle invocation ritual. This level is small and round(ish). I'm the white @-sign; there are two highlighted letters near me representing my pets, an orange 'D' for Valencia the orange dragon, and a purple 'w' for my purple worm Floofy (he used to be a kitten.) Around the floor are some corpses ('%'), a weapon (')'), armor ('['), tools ('('), stones ('*') and a magic scroll ('?'); there's a staircase down (white '>') leading back to Hell, and a ladder up (brown '<') leading further up the Tower.
Along the bottom of the screen are OD&D-esque stats, reading:
Robin the Sorcerer St [strength]:18 Dx [dexterity]:23 Co [consitution]:21 In [intelligence]:25 Wi [wisdom]:25 Ch [charisma]:9 Chaotic [my alignment]
Dlvl [dungeon level]:38 $ [money, in "zorkmids"]:312 HP [hit points]:233(233) Pw [magical power]:95(309) AC [armour class; old-school so low is good!]:-47 Xp [experience]: [level] 18/1302707 [points] T [time]:53833 Burdened [I'm carrying so much I'm a little slow, even with my bag of holding, so I'll need to make a temporary storage cache here then move some weight to my main stash in Sokoban once I've done Vlad in.]
At the top of the screen is a message telling what's just happened (and prompting me to hit space for more messages):
The invisible Floofy swallows the Green-elf. "Burrrrp!"--More--](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qakvaly2sy7dqeav7xcebrap/bafkreifr3bu57c56gbhesv66qtemezl6gd2hylmhe3ikd7zqyvighvtpim)
Screenshot of NetHack, a roguelike (in the original sense of "like Rogue") game using colour ASCII characters in a monospace console window to represent a top-down view of a procedurally generated dungeon level, dots and line-drawing characters for walls, letters and symbols for monsters and objects. My pet purple worm (a purple 'w') has just swallowed a Green-elf and is burrrrping contentendly through the medium of short on-screen narrative text) Not Enough, Still Interested: This is the bottom floor of Vlad's Tower, a dungeon branch in the late midgame, at the top of which lurks Vlad the Impaler with the candelabrum I need for the game's climactic bell-book-and-candle invocation ritual. This level is small and round(ish). I'm the white @-sign; there are two highlighted letters near me representing my pets, an orange 'D' for Valencia the orange dragon, and a purple 'w' for my purple worm Floofy (he used to be a kitten.) Around the floor are some corpses ('%'), a weapon (')'), armor ('['), tools ('('), stones ('*') and a magic scroll ('?'); there's a staircase down (white '>') leading back to Hell, and a ladder up (brown '<') leading further up the Tower. Along the bottom of the screen are OD&D-esque stats, reading: Robin the Sorcerer St [strength]:18 Dx [dexterity]:23 Co [consitution]:21 In [intelligence]:25 Wi [wisdom]:25 Ch [charisma]:9 Chaotic [my alignment] Dlvl [dungeon level]:38 $ [money, in "zorkmids"]:312 HP [hit points]:233(233) Pw [magical power]:95(309) AC [armour class; old-school so low is good!]:-47 Xp [experience]: [level] 18/1302707 [points] T [time]:53833 Burdened [I'm carrying so much I'm a little slow, even with my bag of holding, so I'll need to make a temporary storage cache here then move some weight to my main stash in Sokoban once I've done Vlad in.] At the top of the screen is a message telling what's just happened (and prompting me to hit space for more messages): The invisible Floofy swallows the Green-elf. "Burrrrp!"--More--
Pet purple worms for the win #nethack
NetHack, like cryptic crosswords, is a tragic example of a brilliant game that MUCH more younger-generation nerds would be into if it wasn't so opaque to newcomers
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in 2026 I plan to be better at carving out small slices of my free time, on recurring basis, to work on:
Slartboz
LatLearn
my (WIP) book on HPC
and play:
ASL
DCC TTRPG
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Graphics, how about ASCII? If anyone wants to play an almost impossible to beat game with mechanics wholly indifferent to your wanting to beat it, take a swing at #Nethack for years and years of soul-crushing incremental improvement. Maybe you'll beat it, maybe you won't.
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📢 HEY NERDS!!!
Sooooo.....when do I get to hack the net?
Let's play a 1987 classic: #NetHack mostly blind! (expect failure)
#teamvspyre #vtuber #envtuber #goinglive #vtlive #twitch
twitch.tv/Easy_as_Pi314
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I just realized I said this in a call to answer "Hey JJ what's up?"
Oh hey, yeah I'm building #nethack in a #python container to run on my proprietary enterprise #OpenShift cluster.
Holy hell, I didn't realize how nerdy I was till I said it out loud.
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Worse #nethack early game ever: Human rogue, no magic resist or reflection until castle, no wishes, no scroll of enchanted armor until Gehennom(!) No magic lamps at all. Early Stormbringer, a brace of daggers, and luck got me through.
Still love this game. 😆
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https://tnnt.org/uniquedeaths apparently exists and post163 and others are going for that one. #nethack #tnnt
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It's nice that I can casually follow #tnnt via the #nethack tag on mastodon. I don't have to check leaderboards and teams, it's just nice to read that people are competing sokoban, dipping for Excalibur, raiding shops etc. I really appreciate it.
(No, don't even try to get me to play on the […]
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If you haven't played the original non-colour ASCII-only Nethack on a display terminal, and jumped high in your chair when a @ suddenly appears next to you, have you really played computer games?
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nethack victory screen. "You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Hermes."
Okay, now I'm seriously done playing #nethack for a while
Ascension 12 as a healer. Archaeologist is the only role left
Have never had this much trouble with Death. Took me from max HP of 210 down to 85
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Every so often, I come back to #Nethack in the hopes that I'll finally ascend, after playing it for more than two decades. It never happens, but I'll keep trying.
I'm playing the DOS version using Magic DOSBox for #Android, an amazing app and worth the price. You can make your own custom GUI.
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I'm playing #NetHack, partway through Sokoban. I encountered a chameleon disguised as a dragon, and managed to kill it. Ate the corpse, was transformed into a female blue dragon and laid an egg...
NOW I HAVE A PET BABY DRAGON THAT CAN BREATH LIGHTNING HOLY SHIT.
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Scalable Option Learning Accelerates Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Scalable Option Learning (SOL) algorithm boosts hierarchical RL training throughput by about 35× and was tested on 30 billion frames in NetHack, outperforming flat agents. getnews.me/scalable-option-learning... #hierarchicalrl #sol #nethack
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