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Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++
- adornKey 1y agoCongratulations!
- colordrops 1y agoThis is crazy in a good way
- t222ic 1y agoit actually … is?
- anupj 1y ago[dead]
- samrus 1y agoThis is great. Old school game dev where youd built the whole engine optimized for the game rather than using an over generalized mess like unity or unreal
- h1fra 1y agoProgramming might be a roguelike game, you fail many times at a task, starting from scratch again and again, until you master the field
- lock1 1y agoReal life might be a (hardcore) roguelike game too! ... except you can't restart on failure or reroll your starter kit
- tigerlily 1y agoAnd that's the trouble with death in rl, the permanence was never implied.
- monsieurbanana 1y ago> except you can't restart on failure The jury's still out in that one
- escapecharacter 1y agoNo one lets me use their bones files IRL though
- shreyaha 1y agowow really a feel-good game
- camdroidw 1y agoI know engineers don't like marketing but guys please please put screenshots before anything Edit: okay I see them now but I quit the page once and I'm sure I'm not alone.
- Severian 1y agoI use NP++ almost my entire day, and this would be great for short breaks. Awesome job!
- raspyberr 1y agoIt's funny that this roguelike is advertised as a roguelite and most roguelites are advertised as roguelikes.
- mcv 1y agoYeah, the word "roguelike" seems to have rapidly lost its meaning these past couple of years.
- darkfloo 1y agoIt was always pretty nebulous, relevant video by DoshDoshington https://youtu.be/FT6XfaHgyh0?si=xayqzhkkmYjB4_UC https://youtu.be/FT6XfaHgyh0?si=xayqzhkkmYjB4_UC
- dolni 1y agoNo, it wasn't always nebulous. Roguelike was a well-established genre for decades before it got hijacked and now means nothing. Like all genres, games within the roguelike genre (or what some people call "traditional roguelikes") have some variance. But if you played two games in the "traditional roguelike" genre, you'd definitely feel the similarities. These days if you pick two random games on Steam with the "roguelike" tag, you're going to get two experiences which are not even reminiscent of the other.
- 0x01FE 1y agoGreat video
- jghn 1y agoI played a *lot* of rogue in the early 80s. I can't remember a single game marketed as a "roguelike" that I've played that reminded me of playing rogue.
- mcv 1y agoI haven't played Rogue, but I've played a lot of Moria, Nethack, and AdoM. Those are what I think of when I hear "Roguelike", although even AdoM might be stretching it a bit with its massive non-random outdoor area.
- grimgrin 1y agothis is the kinda github account I follow, peep their other work