The depth and complexity of the systems in NetHack are difficult to explain, but that diversity and difficulty make the game a perfect candidate for a competition, according to Grefenstette. "You have ...

It has spawned numerous websites, user groups, mailing lists and Usenet topics. It has been around for decades and yet it still has uncounted adherents. It is, perhaps, the best game you can install ...

So I recently started playing nethack. Simple premise, and somehow doesn't get boring after 5 minutes like Diablo.<P>Right now I have this strange problem. I have this damn nice +10 Frost Brand (don't ...

Classic open source dungeon-crawler NetHack has been around since the mid-80s, and it looks like it, thanks to its low quality graphics. In fact, you can even opt to play NetHack using ASCII art ...

People have been designing bots to play NetHack for many years that rely not on neural networks but decision trees as complex as the game itself. The team at Facebook Research hopes to engender a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may not be familiar with NetHack, but it's one of the most influential games of all time. You're an adventurer in a fantasy ...