Just out of boredom, here's a list of things that NetHack (the game) will yell at you, or have others yell at you:

Bang ( Read more... )

It's not out yet, but I was randomly looking at the as-of-now current version (this is a stable link to that revision BTW) of the fixes37.0 file, specifically the General New Features. Lots of interesting little things there; some are quite whimsical, funny, or just plain silly:

tiny chance for randomly created spellbooks to be Discworld novels ( Read more... )

From the I-believe-it-not department:

After a 10+ year hiatus, the NetHack DevTeam is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6, a combination of the old and the new.

Unlike previous releases, which focused on the general game fixes, this release consists of a series of foundational changes in the team, underlying infrastructure and changes ( Read more... )

From the "It's NOT dead, Jim" department - the Nethack site has a new announcement up:

April 3, 2015 Announcement

As a rule, the DevTeam does not volunteer information or comment on our plans or schedules. However, at this time we'd like to make an exception to that rule and provide a brief update on what's been happening:

As just about ( Read more... )

Interesting:

September 21, 2014 Announcement

The NetHack Development Team feels it is necessary to publicly
address an issue that has surfaced in the last week.

Recently a NetHack source distribution has appeared, claiming to
be NetHack 3.5 or 3.5.0 or 3.4.4.

This claim is partially correct. This is our code. However it was ( Read more... )

A little while ago, wegesrand informed me that there's a new release (0.9.0) of NetzHack, the German Nethack translation. So naturally, I had to give it a try.

I've got to say I'm really impressed, too. The entire game's translated, and pretty much all the issues with grammar etc. I previously mentioned have been fixed. Given the difficulties that must ( Read more... )

Y'know, running around in Nethack wielding a rubber chicken while Yakety Sax is playing is far, far too much fun.

Deadly fun, sure (it's quite easy to stone yourself if you're not careful), but bugger if it ain't worth it. :)

I never knew, but apparently, there is a German translation of Nethack (called "NetzHack", of course ( Read more... )