/dev/null NetHack Tournament 2005 Starts Tomorrow

Elitist Snob writes "Registrations for the 7th Annual /dev/null nethack tournament are now open. Time to start cursing at how unfair the Random Number Generator has been to you today. (Or you can just start another holy war about which interface is the best.)" All you folks who shake your canes and say that these new fangled threedee graphics aren't needed, this is your chance to shine. Update: 10/31 16:13 GMT by Z : Thanks to HanClinto for pointing out that if you're new to the tourney you need to wait until Midnight tonight to sign up. Previous year's players can sign up now.

Call me crazy, but...

[Willeh]

I actually prefer playing with tiles instead of the old, wanky ASCII graphics. Not having found a compelling case to use ASCII, i use tiles. Unless ofcourse, i want to slack at work and have to use an ssh connection to my nethack shell.

Correction...

[HanClinto]

Registration is only open for those who where were registered in previous years, and are re-activating their accounts for this year.

If you are new to the tournament (like me), then you have to wait until midnight tonight to register.

Happy hacking! :)

Watch out for c !

[Destoo]

Way to go. Start the tournament on a new moon.

That should be interesting..

For the unitiated: the game checks the date and time for various things in the game. example: you get -1 luck if you start playing on a friday 13th. Undead do double damage from 00:00 to 00:59.

On a new moon, beware of stoning.

Re:whaet is nethack?

[tempest69]

NetHack is a game. It is old, it uses ascii graphics. It is turn based, some creatures can make multiple attacks per turn

The genre is DND style fantasy

The programmers added a huge amount of flexibility into the game, you can eat things you kill, you can weild anything as a weapon, from a sword, to a can of tinned beef. You can dip things into your potions.

There were/are addicts. Some of the thrill of the game is that you couldnt build an invunerable character. The chances of death in game were almost certain. Even with careful fighting, you end up bumping into some sort of owlbear or falling into a spiked pit. You can die from eating bad food, or from starving, or overeating. You can cast spells drunk or halucinating, but it probably wont work right. You can have a pet, and train it. The programmers have though of a almost everything.

Storm

ok there goes my week.