Since Medusa is said to be a Gorgon, she is a winged creature with venomous snakes crawling in her head. I don't think NetHack has that, so I suggest that there be water mocassins on her head and ...

I found the code of a "legend" in a corner of GitHub. NetHack. A roguelike game that an anonymous development team, the "DevTeam," began writing in C in 1987. Approximately 323,000 lines. 398 files.

Since 1987, players could explore ever-new dungeons in “NetHack”. Almost 40 years later, there is now a major update for the enormously extensive title. One of the oldest still actively developed ...

ANTIQUES CODE SHOW Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend. NetHack and its ilk trace their origins back to Rogue, a game for Unix systems ...

The latest version 5.0.0 of NetHack, a classic roguelike game from 1987 where players explore dungeons using characters represented by '@', has been released. It reportedly includes over 3100 fixes ...

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According to Ethan Mollick on X (Twitter), OpenAI's Codex autonomously downloaded NetHack, modified game items to increase player power, and produced a working Windows .exe, overcoming environment and ...

The roguelike genre is a complicated thing. There's some disagreement over how exactly to define a roguelike game, but permanent death and procedural level generation are generally held up as two of ...

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great success as high-level planners for zero-shot game-playing agents However, these agents are primarily evaluated on games where long-term planning ...

Members of the Legendary Computer Bugs Tribunal, honored guests, if I may have your attention? I would, humbly, submit a new contender for your esteemed judgment. You may or may not find it novel, you ...