[HN Gopher] Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System (2014)
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       Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System (2014)
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2021-08-24 12:22 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | adamrezich wrote:
       | I haven't played Nethack in years (and I was always terrible at
       | it), but I've read some about Nethack4 and how OG Nethack has
       | been releasing some updates after many years of hiatus... so my
       | question is, which Nethack do people play these days? after
       | diving into DC:SS again for the first time in years and seeing
       | all the changes, and playing the just-1.0'd Jupiter Hell a fair
       | amount as well, I've been thinking about going back and
       | revisiting Nethack again.
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       | (also: just noticed this post is from 2014!)
        
         | generaljelly wrote:
         | Unnethack is probably my favorite fork of nethack. It has a lot
         | of extra dungeons and new stuff without just it being a bunch
         | of unbalanced chaff with breaking fundamental nethack ideas.
         | (Sorry slashem fans).
         | 
         | For the general turn based roguelike games check out caves of
         | qud. It has its flaws but is incredibly interesting.
        
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           | huachimingo wrote:
           | Check also Pixel Dungeon (coffee break RL) and its mods.
           | Shattered PD became the most popular and with lots of nice
           | gameplay.
        
             | adamrezich wrote:
             | not to take away from their quality, but I'm constantly
             | amazed that nobody has really one-upped PD/SPD in terms of
             | mobile traditional roguelikes! are there any others you'd
             | recommend? I can never seem to find any and always end up
             | going back to SPD
        
         | eropple wrote:
         | UnNethack is really good. Like the sibling poster, I too play a
         | lot of Qud, but it kind of comes from a different tradition of
         | roguelikes so it might not scratch the same itch. It's
         | spectacular, though.
         | 
         | Cogmind comes to mind as being a neat riff off of the "hack"
         | style of roguelikes, and the developer is super open and cool
         | about the game. Or, for a little bit of an older but a much
         | broader experience, you could check out Dungeons of Dredmor.
         | 
         | (As you mentioned--Jupiter Hell just came out and it's the
         | sequel to DoomRL and it's awesome, if you like more
         | coffeebreak-style roguelikes!)
        
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