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Reddit Roguelike Challenge 6: Nethack, UnNethack and SporkHack

•2. December 2013 • Leave a Comment

The current Reddit Roguelike Challenge on Reddit is about NetHack forks.

Post there how far you got and what score you achieved or tell the story of your gruesome death.

Happy hacking!

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Android port of UnNetHack 4.0.0

•8. October 2013 • 2 Comments

Gurr has taken the code of his Android port of NetHack 3.4.3 and applied it to UnNetHack 4.0.0.

You can now download the APK file of UnNetHack 4.0.0 for Android 2.1 and up for direct installation from the SourceForge download page of UnNetHack.

There will be soon a version of it that can be downloaded directly from the Google Play Store.

Showing the map in ASCII

Android UnNetHack with modified Abigaba tiles

Showing the map in modified Abigaba tiles

Android UnNetHack with ASCII, showing the keyboard

Showing the software keyboard

Posted in misc, releases, unnethack

Junethack 2013 – the 3rd NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament

•3. June 2013 • 4 Comments

The third installment of the annual NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament called Junethack has started on Saturday June 1st 2013 at midnight UTC and will be running until the end of June.

This year’s installment features additional cross variant achievements for reaching some goals in all or half of the variants, new clan trophies (logarithmic points, most Medusa kills, most games with all conducts broken), a (rudimentary) mobile version of the site, and last but not least, the UnNetHack 5 release candidate.

This tournament is trying to appeal not only to the hardcore serial ascenders but also to players that get constantly mangled and beaten to death in unrealistic brutal situations by this sadistic game (that means probably you) by offering various non-winning achievements and encouraging people to try and play NetHack forks.

You participate in the tournament by playing Vanilla NetHack, SporkHack, UnNethack, AceHack, GruntHack, or NetHack4 on the supported public servers and linking those accounts on your Junethack user page.

You can get in contact with the organizers of Junethack here, on rec.games.roguelike.nethack, and in the #junethack IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.

If you want to help out in the development of the tournament, you can check out our code from GitHub.

Posted in junethack

Friendly Fork “UnNetHackPlus 4.8” released

•30. May 2013 • Leave a Comment

Bulwersator has released the first version of a fork of UnNetHack called “UnNetHackPlus 4.8”.

Read the release announcement on Reddit or look at its NetHackWiki article with some screenshots.

Posted in misc, releases, unnethack

Still alive

•21. May 2013 • 1 Comment

I have been asked by email what’s happening with UnNetHack and if its development has stalled as did with NetHack or its other Forks.

This absolutely did not happen. It’s true that the last official release has been more than a year ago but you can see on this page that there has been lots of development going on since then.

The planned road map to the next release is as follows:

Next month, the Junethack tournament will be held for the third time and for UnNetHack the release candidate for the next major version will be installed on the public server for playing in this tournament.

After June, there will be a release of UnNetHack so all off line players will finally be able to enjoy the new features and dungeon branches that have been brewing for a year.

Posted in misc, unnethack