The depth and complexity of the systems in NetHack are difficult to explain, but that diversity and difficulty make the game a perfect candidate for a competition, according to Grefenstette. "You have ...

Decades on, the pioneering roguelike continues to get updates.

Our memory has grown a bit hazy lately with the glut of cookie-cutter, loot-based RPGs that have carved a wide swathe across the gaming landscape. For many, Diablo is the earliest incarnation of the ...

Classic open source dungeon-crawler NetHack has been around since the mid-80s, and it looks like it, thanks to its low quality graphics. In fact, you can even opt to play NetHack using ASCII art ...

Hadn't seen this here, but I know several folks here play nethack.<BR><BR>Tonight at midnight http://nethack.devnull.net/ starts their annual nethack competition. It ...

People have been designing bots to play NetHack for many years that rely not on neural networks but decision trees as complex as the game itself. The team at Facebook Research hopes to engender a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may not be familiar with NetHack, but it's one of the most influential games of all time. You're an adventurer in a fantasy ...