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  • Making Hack 1.0.3 more accessible for modern players

    From Steve Segreto@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 11 07:55:41 2023
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZiHNcba3Bw

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  • From Steve Segreto@21:1/5 to Steve Segreto on Sat Apr 15 20:20:48 2023
    On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 7:55:43 AM UTC-7, Steve Segreto wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZiHNcba3Bw
    Hack 1.0.3. was my first and favorite version of Hack, I played Don Kneller's port of it for DOS in the mid to late '80s as a young man. I found the game very relaxing but when I tried to show it to my nephew a few years ago, I realized it wasn't
    accessible enough to modern players, so I grabbed the source code and updated it with some visuals and support for mouse/touch/joypad user inputs as well as simplifying the commands with a few context based buttons in the inventory, etc. Take a peek at
    the videos and let me know what the roguelike community thinks.

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  • From bozo user@21:1/5 to Steve Segreto on Sun Apr 23 19:51:47 2023
    On 2023-04-16, Steve Segreto <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 7:55:43 AM UTC-7, Steve Segreto wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZiHNcba3Bw
    Hack 1.0.3. was my first and favorite version of Hack, I played Don Kneller's port of it for DOS in the mid to late '80s as a young man. I found the game very relaxing but when I tried to show it to my nephew a few years ago, I realized it wasn't
    accessible enough to modern players, so I grabbed the source code and updated it with some visuals and support for mouse/touch/joypad user inputs as well as simplifying the commands with a few context based buttons in the inventory, etc. Take a peek at
    the videos and let me know what the roguelike community thinks.

    On Hack 1.0.3 from bsdgames, the first thing I would implement
    would be avoiding to hit your pet.

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  • From Steve Segreto@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 23 20:00:46 2023
    Yep, very first thing I did ... the videos might not make it clear, but I basically backported the petswap code from newer versions here and got rid of the "you displaced the dog" spew.

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