When I was in high school, I discovered a game for MS-DOS entitled “Hack.” The concept of Hack was quite simple — you were an adventurer, you had a dog, you went down into a dungeon in search of pillage and plunder, and you fought all sorts of monsters along the way. It was aContinue reading “On a Lankhmar Roguelike”
Tag Archives: Angband
On a NetHack Wiki
There’s a NetHack Wiki. I’m still wrapping my mind around this. There’s a NetHack Wiki. A NetHack! Wiki! I never really got into NetHack. Hack, yes. Hack 1.0.3 was a close friend during high school and college. Angband? Well, I’ve got a couple of different versions on my computer, but I’ve never spent any realContinue reading “On a NetHack Wiki”
On a Pointless Quest
And there was much rejoicing! I found a Windows binary for PernAngband! Okay, okay. Most of you reading this are probably saying to yourself, “Huh? Wha? Who?” PernAngband. There’s a computer game called Angband. It’s a text-based dungeon crawl, a Rogue-like game similar to Hack and NetHack, a descendant of Rogue and Moria. Where HackContinue reading “On a Pointless Quest”