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#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes #roguelikedev #Angband may Roguelikes unite us all in #ASCII dreams. Latest patch of this humble Z #Variant is up and ready:
https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband-med
Grab your copy, read (at least) the entry for IV-11 so you know all things going on and, above all, enjoy it.

#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes #roguelikedev #Angband may Roguelikes unite us all in #ASCII dreams. Latest patch of this humble Z #Variant is up and ready:
https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband-med
Grab your copy, read (at least) the entry for IV-11 so you know all things going on and, above all, enjoy it.

#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes #roguelikedev #Angband may Roguelikes unite us all in #ASCII dreams. Latest patch of this humble Z #Variant is up and ready:
https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband-med
Grab your copy, read (at least) the entry for IV-11 so you know all things going on and, above all, enjoy it.

#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes #roguelikedev #Angband may Roguelikes unite us all in #ASCII dreams. Latest patch of this humble Z #Variant is up and ready:
https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband-med
Grab your copy, read (at least) the entry for IV-11 so you know all things going on and, above all, enjoy it.

#ZMAngband #traditionalroguelikes #roguelikedev #Angband may Roguelikes unite us all in #ASCII dreams. Latest patch of this humble Z #Variant is up and ready:
https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband-med
Grab your copy, read (at least) the entry for IV-11 so you know all things going on and, above all, enjoy it.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup aka #dcss is pretty damn hard. Even playing the recommended "easy build" of a Gargoyle Berserker, I keep dying around character and dungeon level 5. It's like you go straight from fighting a few loose rats and snakes to getting ambushed by an entire orc army all at once. And you can't grind XP because each level is permanent and the monsters stay dead, unlike in #Angband and #ADOM. #roguelike #yasd

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup aka #dcss is pretty damn hard. Even playing the recommended "easy build" of a Gargoyle Berserker, I keep dying around character and dungeon level 5. It's like you go straight from fighting a few loose rats and snakes to getting ambushed by an entire orc army all at once. And you can't grind XP because each level is permanent and the monsters stay dead, unlike in #Angband and #ADOM. #roguelike #yasd

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup aka #dcss is pretty damn hard. Even playing the recommended "easy build" of a Gargoyle Berserker, I keep dying around character and dungeon level 5. It's like you go straight from fighting a few loose rats and snakes to getting ambushed by an entire orc army all at once. And you can't grind XP because each level is permanent and the monsters stay dead, unlike in #Angband and #ADOM. #roguelike #yasd

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup aka #dcss is pretty damn hard. Even playing the recommended "easy build" of a Gargoyle Berserker, I keep dying around character and dungeon level 5. It's like you go straight from fighting a few loose rats and snakes to getting ambushed by an entire orc army all at once. And you can't grind XP because each level is permanent and the monsters stay dead, unlike in #Angband and #ADOM. #roguelike #yasd

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup aka #dcss is pretty damn hard. Even playing the recommended "easy build" of a Gargoyle Berserker, I keep dying around character and dungeon level 5. It's like you go straight from fighting a few loose rats and snakes to getting ambushed by an entire orc army all at once. And you can't grind XP because each level is permanent and the monsters stay dead, unlike in #Angband and #ADOM. #roguelike #yasd

I recently picked up a new classic #roguelike, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup or #dcss. I am really impressed by its #qualityoflife features compared to #Angband and #Nethack, including a web client, mouse support, auto-move, and auto-fight. It really shows how a game can have a great easy-to-learn interface but still be balls hard. I like it.

https://crawl.akrasiac.org:8443/#lobby

my #dwarffortress experience comes after #moria #roguelike #mincraft #rpg #dungeon #crawler #dnd #ascii #angband #shatteredpixel ... so far, after 8 hours, I sort of feel aimless and like maybe I made a bad purchase. Is there an "arcade" version of Dwarf Fortress? to get started with? How does one engage with this #lore... ?

my #dwarffortress experience comes after #moria #roguelike #mincraft #rpg #dungeon #crawler #dnd #ascii #angband #shatteredpixel ... so far, after 8 hours, I sort of feel aimless and like maybe I made a bad purchase. Is there an "arcade" version of Dwarf Fortress? to get started with? How does one engage with this #lore... ?

my #dwarffortress experience comes after #moria #roguelike #mincraft #rpg #dungeon #crawler #dnd #ascii #angband #shatteredpixel ... so far, after 8 hours, I sort of feel aimless and like maybe I made a bad purchase. Is there an "arcade" version of Dwarf Fortress? to get started with? How does one engage with this #lore... ?

my #dwarffortress experience comes after #moria #roguelike #mincraft #rpg #dungeon #crawler #dnd #ascii #angband #shatteredpixel ... so far, after 8 hours, I sort of feel aimless and like maybe I made a bad purchase. Is there an "arcade" version of Dwarf Fortress? to get started with? How does one engage with this #lore... ?

I hope traditional roguelike fans who follow me here have been following the progress I've boosted here and there about @josemachete79's ZAngband variant 'ZMAngband' he's been working on based on the original red box D&D rules.

Go to https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband07me and grab a copy to try out yourself - it's a blast!

#roguelikes #TraditionalRoguelikes #ZAngband #Angband #ProcGen #ZMAngband #itch #ItchGames #roguelike

I feel like I need to qualify my #hollowknight statement.

My loves are eclectic. I put tons of hours into #angband, #skyrim, various #zelda homebrew. I put an embarrassing amount of hours (years) into being immortal on a MUD.

I love all #metroid / #retro stuff, did a bunch of #stardewvalley , #valheim, #minecraft, #fps, #stanleyparable, all over the place.

Hollow Knight is so good it's become a trope of the genre, the game by which similar are compared for several years.

So yeah, play it.

Sometimes I feel silly for building a boss workstation with an excellent video card when my gaming preferences are usually things like #Angband, #DwarfFortress, and pre-y2k #emulation.

That said, there are many giveaways that you're in a middle aged geek's office... one of them has got to be spotting a handmade ergo (team #DactylManuform) or 40% mech... with a detached numpad on the sidecar.