3.6.7[2][3]
/ 16 February 2023; 15 months ago (16 February 2023)
Repository
github.com/NetHack/NetHack
Operating system
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows CE, OS/2, *BSD, System V, Solaris, HP-UX, BeOS, VMS, Haiku[4][5]
Type
Roguelike
License
NetHack General Public License (derivative of BISON general public license, a precursor to the GPL)
Website
www.nethack.org
NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1982 game Hack, itself inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and collecting treasure, to recover the "Amulet of Yendor" at the lowest floor and then escape.[6][7]
As an exemplar of the traditional "roguelike" game, NetHack features turn-based, grid-based hack and slash dungeon crawling gameplay, procedurally generated dungeons and treasure, and permadeath, requiring the player to restart the game anew should the player character die. The game uses simple ASCII graphics by default so as to display readily on a wide variety of computer displays, but can use curses with box-drawing characters, as well as substitute graphical tilesets on machines with graphics. While Rogue, Hack and other earlier roguelikes stayed true to a high fantasy setting, NetHack introduced humorous and anachronistic elements over time, including popular cultural reference to works such as Discworld and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It is identified as one of the "major roguelikes" by John Harris.[8] Comparing it with Rogue, Engadget's Justin Olivetti wrote that it took its exploration aspect and "made it far richer with an encyclopedia of objects, a larger vocabulary, a wealth of pop culture mentions, and a puzzler's attitude."[9] In 2000, Salon described it as "one of the finest gaming experiences the computing world has to offer".[10]
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^Harris, John (2 February 2011). "Analysis: The Eight Rules Of Roguelike Design". Game Developer. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
^Olivetti, Justin (18 January 2014). "The Game Archaeologist: A brief history of roguelikes". Engadget. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
^Au, Wagner James (26 January 2000). "The best game ever". Salon. Archived from the original on 13 January 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
to hundreds of variants. Some of the better-known variants include Hack, NetHack, Ancient Domains of Mystery, Moria, Angband, Tales of Maj'Eyal, and...
timestamps and then replaying it. It is widely used for example in the NetHack community for storing game replays. It is similar to the script command...
also one of the core developers of the NetHack computer game from 1986 up to his death; version 3.2 of NetHack, the first to come out after his death...
Doom: Building Rogue, Part 1"". In Magrath, Andrew (ed.). Dungeon Hacks: How NetHack, Angband, and Other Roguelikes Changed the Course of Video Games....
in André Franquins "Noël et l’Elaoin" (1978). The rogue-like video game Nethack uses randomized names for unidentified magic scrolls; one of these names...
versions of the roguelike computer game Hack that formed the basis for NetHack. He is also a Linux kernel hacker. He is sometimes referred to by the handle...
someone who does not fit within the game's alignment system, for example, in NetHack, Moloch is unaligned Non-Aligned Movement of states Unaligned data structures...
1997. The game had a quirky license based on Bison's license and the NetHack License; Stone Soup has contacted every past contributor and relicensed...
Riders collective refers to three of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in NetHack, serving as the game's final bosses. Sonic Riders, a 2006 racing video...
meme and now returns thousands of Google search results. In the videogame NetHack, "HAPAX LEGOMENON" is one of the possible randomized texts of a still unidentified...
A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated...
alone. Though it is relatively inspired of older roguelike games, like NetHack, the franchise had a few unique gameplay elements that would appear in...
uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=001&page=053&magazine=yr64 Kate Nepveu. "Nethack Demogorgon FAQ". steelypips.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-26...
Hack and slash, also known as hack and slay (H&S or HnS) or slash 'em up, refers to a type of gameplay that emphasizes combat with melee-based weapons...
2010-08-03. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon has more in common with a litany of dungeon hacks than it does with any of Nintendo's traditional Pokémon role-playing games...
and Dungeons & Dragons. Contrary to other traditional roguelikes such as NetHack, the game has a quest system as a core mechanic, with some of these quests...
A domain hack is a domain name that suggests a word, phrase, or name when concatenating two or more adjacent levels of that domain. For example, bir.ds...
conception for Spelunky using procedural generation. Aztec, Balding's Quest, NetHack, Indiana Jones, and Cave Story have also been credited as influences. Spelunky...
countries National Highways, an agency that manages England's motorways NetHack, a computer game Nishan-e-Haider, a Pakistani military award Nishan-e-Hamidiya...
may nullify magical projectiles, as the "cloak of magic resistance" in NetHack. Figuratively, a cloak may be anything that disguises or conceals something...
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