Monday, November 29, 2010

NetHack

Ignore what I said about ROGUE - Nethack is the upgraded version.

Primary problems still exist though -> no food.

Bah.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Have you tried Rogue?

Rogue - A very old game programmed in the 1980s. It is essentially a dungeon crawler stripped down to the bare bones of just the gameplay itself. You use a DOS screen to move your character around(a smiley face) and hit monsters by running into them. So far, I've yet to get past level 12, as this game mimics being literally in a dungeon. Sometimes, there seems to be no way out and you'll have to search all over the cavern you are in to find an escape route, and there is a slight possibility that you may die from starvation, though I have yet to do so. The game can be very unreasonable at times, throwing a Troll at you when you're just a level 5 character and thus, you die. Sometimes you have 30 hit points and still get killed by a miserable snake. So yeah, download it (0.1mb)

- Cap'n Mook

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Heart of Darkness

It is quite a dark book, and it deals with the deeper and more basic impulses of the human soul when the shackles of civilization falls away and there are no rules to limit a person power except his own power against others. It also deals with how we can revert back to ancient practices and superstition when all else falls away from us.