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This is a blast from the past. I hadn't thought of elliptic in years. At some point I should write up my roguelike recollections... maybe ten years ago, Ken Ar

This is a blast from the past. I hadn't thought of elliptic in years. At some point I should write up my roguelike recollections... maybe ten years ago, Ken Arnold was stopping by Boston. Haran, one of the other crawl devs, found out and drove all the way from New York to have coffee with us. All I really remember of that was Ken explaining that he added the food clock as a way of generically solving scumming.

quickthrowman 1y ago
> This is a blast from the past. I hadn't thought of elliptic in years. Hehe, I figured someone would recognize who I meant! IIRC he had created an automated bot that was able to ascend with 3 runes, MiBe of Trog w/ Axes (for cleaving?). Elliptic and N78291 were my favorite players to watch, along with mikee_ That sounds like a fun little meetup, I kept in touch with a couple fellow ##crawl players for a while (crate and ophanim) but have lost touch. I know JoshTriplett posts here sometimes too. I contributed a single patch myself, I do believe it was a mace/blunt weapon balance patch but it’s been a while!