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Nethack - Adventure game

Single player adventure game (similar to Rogue) of dungeon exploration that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. The emphasis is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly.

Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, role, and gender.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.nethack.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.nethack.org/v343/download-src.html
Source informationhttp://www.nethack.org/v343/downloads.html
Version 3.4.3 (stable) released on 2003-12-10
Licensed under Nethack license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual included
Support contacts

Announce Newsrec.games.roguelike.announce
Help Newsrec.games.roguelike
Developer List<devteam@nethack.org>
Bug List<devteam@nethack.org>
Bug Databasehttp://www.nethack.org/v343/bugs.html

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacesterminal
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisitesmake, flex, yacc/bison
Related programsHackers

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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