Description of Nethack and announcement of the /dev/null/nethack Tournament
Nethack is a classic among computer games. From its creation in 1987 to the present day it has fascinated generations of players, for how a game with such a crude presentation at first holds so much magic, so many moments of surprise in which you ask yourself once again how the creators had thought of that detail.
The classic Nethack is a game of the roguelike genre, that is, you control an adventurer in his feat of exploring a cave in an epic and fantastic setting.
The news here is that we have discovered that a tournament has been running for 9 years. The /dev/nul/nethack tournament.
That is why we recommend that you try Nethack, tell us about your adventures, and if you take part in the tournament, that you can show us with pride how far you have got!
- Tournament information: http://nethack.devnull.net/
- Article about Nethack on es.wikipedia.org: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethack
- Nethack tricks (spoilers). We recommend that you do not read the link if you want to discover all the surprises for yourself, but it is a source of information on what Nethack hides that you did not expect. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/spoilerlist.html
- Nethack ported to the Nokia 770: http://www.rengels.de/computer/nethack/
- Falcon’s Eye. A derivative of Nethack with graphics. http://users.tkk.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html
Screenshot of Nethack in its classic mode, as a representation of a Dungeon with ASCII characters.
