A great read. I don't remember where it came from, but somehow as a teenager in the late 90s/early 00s I stumbled upon a DOS copy of Rogue and, like the weirdo/future programmer I was, played it...
A great read. I don't remember where it came from, but somehow as a teenager in the late 90s/early 00s I stumbled upon a DOS copy of Rogue and, like the weirdo/future programmer I was, played it obsessively for several years.
This piece says Rogue isn't open source, but at some point I found a copy of the code, though I don't recall the license. And I believe at some point it was available on Debian, I think in package bsdgames-nonfree?
To this day I sometimes think about porting it to Android. Licensing might be an intractable hurdle though. I know there are other similar games on mobile, even ones aesthetically similar to Rogue, but for me nothing can beat the simplicity and nostalgic familiarity of the OG.
(If you're looking for something like Rogue on Android, you might look at Pocket Rogue. It's a thoughtfully-constructed game that does a great job of taking everything great from the Rogue formula and making it more accessible. There's also Shattered Pixel Dungeon, if you want graphics. But for me it's Rogue or bust.)
Wow, impressive! I appreciate the information, and your repo's readme is fantastic too. If I get bored at work tomorrow I might take a closer look at your code.
Wow, impressive! I appreciate the information, and your repo's readme is fantastic too. If I get bored at work tomorrow I might take a closer look at your code.
I have been playing a lot of Gnollhack recently on Android. It's based on NetHack 3.6.2 but adds a GUI, animations, voice acting and quite a few customisations while managing to preserve the...
I know there are other similar games on mobile, even ones aesthetically similar to Rogue, but for me nothing can beat the simplicity and nostalgic familiarity of the OG.
I have been playing a lot of Gnollhack recently on Android. It's based on NetHack 3.6.2 but adds a GUI, animations, voice acting and quite a few customisations while managing to preserve the nostalgic "feel" of NetHack, more or less (on the appropriate "expert/classic" difficulty level). There's also an ASCII version but at that point you may as well be playing the OG.
I'm sure many would vehemently disagree and consider it a travesty, but I grew up playing NetHack on the GUI port Falcon's Eye (later resurrected as Vulture's Eye) not long after you got into Rogue. I'm sure I stumbled across it on a freeware/abandonware site like Home of the Underdogs, and once I found out about the original DOS /ASCII versions I was too far gone to get into them.
A great read. I don't remember where it came from, but somehow as a teenager in the late 90s/early 00s I stumbled upon a DOS copy of Rogue and, like the weirdo/future programmer I was, played it obsessively for several years.
This piece says Rogue isn't open source, but at some point I found a copy of the code, though I don't recall the license. And I believe at some point it was available on Debian, I think in package bsdgames-nonfree?
To this day I sometimes think about porting it to Android. Licensing might be an intractable hurdle though. I know there are other similar games on mobile, even ones aesthetically similar to Rogue, but for me nothing can beat the simplicity and nostalgic familiarity of the OG.
(If you're looking for something like Rogue on Android, you might look at Pocket Rogue. It's a thoughtfully-constructed game that does a great job of taking everything great from the Rogue formula and making it more accessible. There's also Shattered Pixel Dungeon, if you want graphics. But for me it's Rogue or bust.)
Wow, impressive! I appreciate the information, and your repo's readme is fantastic too. If I get bored at work tomorrow I might take a closer look at your code.
I have been playing a lot of Gnollhack recently on Android. It's based on NetHack 3.6.2 but adds a GUI, animations, voice acting and quite a few customisations while managing to preserve the nostalgic "feel" of NetHack, more or less (on the appropriate "expert/classic" difficulty level). There's also an ASCII version but at that point you may as well be playing the OG.
I'm sure many would vehemently disagree and consider it a travesty, but I grew up playing NetHack on the GUI port Falcon's Eye (later resurrected as Vulture's Eye) not long after you got into Rogue. I'm sure I stumbled across it on a freeware/abandonware site like Home of the Underdogs, and once I found out about the original DOS /ASCII versions I was too far gone to get into them.