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| title | description | date | draft | type | rss_ignore |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nethack | In which I play way too much of a silly command line Rogue-like game. | 2022-04-13T08:43:46-07:00 | false | simple | true |
Every so often I get hooked on this game. It's a command line Roguelike adventure game with rules based on Dungeons & Dragons. You play a character on a mission for their deity to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor from an evil Wizard and bring it back to the surface. The game gives you very little to go on when you start, and it teaches you almost nothing except the basic controls. Famously, almost every item you encounter or action you can take can go wrong in some catastrophic way and cause {{< abbr title="Yet Another Stupid Death" >}}YASD{{</ abbr >}}. The more you play, the more you learn, and the more you begin to understand the risks and consequences.
In short: it's very hard, you die a lot, and it's quite easy to lose hours delving deeper and deeper into the Dungeons of Doom, dying, and starting again. It's also really fun.
Here's my best game so far:
{{< nethack/best_game >}}
A Game Log
The game logs every play-through, along with a bunch of data about your character and how you did.
Herein is a chronological accounting of my last ten descents into the Dungeons of Doom.
{{< nethack/logfile >}}