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iPhone Gets Rogue, NetHack Pleading Starts Here
5:20AM Stuart Houghton | For me, roguelike games are an absolute must have on any self-respecting games platform, and you don’t get much more roguelike than, well, Rogue. More »
Old School Dungeoneering In The Tombs Of Asciiroth
5:20AM Kotaku US Edition | Fans of pre-graphical RPGs like Nethack and Rogue might occasionally wander out from their UNIX labs and find themselves confronted with a modern web browser. Once the initial shock of daylight and antialiased fonts has worn off, they will probably need to chill out with a quick dungeon hack. Tombs Of Asciiroth is a labour of love — recreating the look and feel of an ASCII roguelike in Firefox. There is full-length quest to be had wandering the titular Tombs, and the usually obscure keyboard commands are illustrated with a nice tutorial level with pop-up tip windows. It can be a bit slow, and you will need to install Google Gears if you want to save your game, but there is plenty of old school fun to be had. You can’t not like a game that includes the phrase “Use the sword against hostile Ampersands”. The Tombs Of Asciiroth [Icculus.org] More »Handheld For Roguelikes Is A Great Idea
12:00PM Logan Booker | I had my PSP playing Angband for a few months, until my brother updated the firmware and I lost heart in the whole homebrew venture. If only there was a boutique manufacturer willing to build a handheld console dedicated to playing roguelike games such as Dwarf Fortress, ADOM and Nethack? Sadly, no such vendor exists, but that hasn’t stopped BoingBoing from coming up with Photoshop prototypes.
From the post:
Some sort of UMPC or handheld console solution dedicated to one single purpose: Playing ASCII rogue-likes on the go. Everything has to be designed so you can play Dwarf Fortress or Nethack with the minimum amount of bullshit.
I know I’d buy one, but I know only one other person who would as well. Cool, yes. Profitable, no. Which is sad.
Who’d like a portable text game console? [BoingBoing, via Backstrip] More » 