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Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @03:47AM from the addictive-frustration dept.

ZorbaTHut writes "I've been playing a lot of Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup lately. It's a great example of a roguelike (and open source, too). But I can't stop thinking that perhaps 'roguelike' is the wrong term for the genre. 'Roguelikes aren’t about dungeons. They’re not about text-based graphics, or random artifacts, or permadeath. ... Roguelikes are about using an unpredictable toolkit with complex interactions in order to overcome unpredictable challenges.'"

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Nethack (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @03:57AM (#35950570)

Roguelikes are about incomprehensible control schemes utilizing every single key on your keyboard, twice!

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Re:Nethack (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @04:01AM (#35950586)

So vi and emacs are roguelike?

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