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Hey people looking at Nethax

I've asked a few people to come in and take a look at Nethax. If you want to leave me a message about it you can leave a comment in this entry.

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Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

Looks awesome so far.  Only things I've noticed is that saving/loading doesn't really work and the high-scores aren't updated dynamically.

Other than that?  Pretty kick-ass.  Great work you've got there.  :)

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

It's interesting, but relatively difficult to play on. The main gameplay feel issues are lack of keyboard controls (selecting everything with the mouse is rather slow), and the lag (although that probably isn't your fault). More problematic are some issues that directly affect gameplay, due to unimplemented commands; for instance, it's impossible to eat a monster corpse without picking it up first, which among other things makes it basically impossible to get disintegration resistance, but also makes getting food in the early game much harder (some monsters are too heavy to lift safely and provide good nutrition).

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

Very nice! Have a web-based interface for NetHack should help keep the soldier ants well fed.

One way to build on this is with my old Duplicate NetHack patch, which rigs the RNG so that players with the same seed get the same dungeon, items and events. Duplicate NetHack needs, but never had, a tournament matchmaking system. Something like a 'dungeon of the week' (each account's first game of the week gets that week's seed) would distinguish Nethax from all the telnet-accessible NetHack servers.

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

i fucking love it dude. i've been looking for a web based version of nethack ever since i got a job with an it-department that blocks all kinds of telnet and ssh.

I LOVE YOU FOR THIS!!!

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

Wow, that's really incredible work! What did you do to implement it - are you running a nethack process on the server? It didn't look like I could set options (no "O" command) - is there a way to use the letter keys (hjklyubn) to move around?

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

Hey - thanks and congratulations on a real achievement. That is a great implementation of NetHack. The only issue for me is the 'hjkl' movement mode. I always use this in NetHack and it doesn't seem to work here. Generally, I don't see a way to get to the Options, which is pretty understandable. I would normally disable autopickup of certain item types as well. If I could get the directional keys, that would be a Huge win. As it stands, it's tough for me to play, but I would lose a lot of otherwise productive time if you enabled that. Thanks and congrats, Jim

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

hey well done!

but i cant save ... when i wanna save following message shows up:

FATAL ERROR: Broken Pipe

:(((

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

Its fun and easily accesible, i only played with Vultures Eye because i couldnt be bothered with all the keyboard commands, this makes it more accesible and the fact that its browser based it great.

Only issue is that my scores dont seem to get saved with every death.

Re: Hey people looking at Nethax

It's O for Awesome Dude!

A great implementation.