If you have ever played any role-playing games, you probably know how much fun they can be. NetHack is the greatest (IMHO) of all the Rogue-like games. Unfortunately, NetHack is beginning to look a bit dated, since it has a text-based user interface. While this was fine on my Atari 400 computer, we can do better then that today! There is an X11 interface, but it uses the extremely ugly Athena widgets. The only other alternative for X11 is NethackQt. NethackQt is very cool, however, there can never be too many choices, even for nethack front ends.

To improve the world's nethack playing ability, we hereby introduce, GnomeHack – a port of NetHack for Gnome. The coding is being done using C and the Gnome libraries, which are based on the very cool GTK+ toolkit.

If you think it would be fun to lug about a huge sword or zap magic while wandering around in a dungeon hacking and slashing at monsters, gaining treasures, and becoming more powerful, while not doing anything productive in the real world, then Gnomehack is for you.

Homepage

Category: RPG/Rogue

License: Open Source

Hardware Requirement:

Singleplayer: Yes
Multiplayer: Yes
Demo: Free

Installation Guide: None
Ubuntu Package: None