All these years later (27 years since its creation?) I’ve now got a fully UNLOCKED copy of NewtHack. This means I no longer am forced to stop after beating LVL 1.
An excellent indie #Roguelike ( Thanks @jake4480 ) that runs on current machines (Windows, Linux, MacOS, & HTML5). Frankly, very good! Good surprise! I would have liked it to be compatible with older machines, but no. Two quality PDF manuals. On my list of favorite Roguelikes! If you like this kind of game: recommended! :0)
Trying out GodoRogue tonight. It's great! You can use the keyboard commands or mouse directly to different locations, how you can see in the screenshot - the yellow line. And you can play this one in-browser. It was made in HTML5!
My takeaway is that it’s only original Rogue fans that care about the delineation of the terms. Is there a modern (i.e. post 2000s game) that matches the definition of a roguelike as given in the article?
Language changes & everything, so it's not super important imo...However, what I do think is important is that given the flexibility of language, some better term for these kinds of games emerges.
I dunno what that term may be, only that I'd hope it may be more telling than the current ones. Imagine if first-person shooters kept being called Doomlikes for decades after Doom came out. It'd be awkward & stifling!
Atari just filed a trademark on "Rogue", a game first published by Epyx in 1980. This game spawned a whole genre of games known as "Roguelikes.".
It would be a bummer if Atari was registering this trademark for the intention of bullying other game developers from using the terms "Rogue" or "Roguelike" in their games.
In today's disgusting game news, "Atari" (whatever iteration of the company that it is now, which is NOT the original Atari) is trying to trademark the name Rogue with NFTs attached 🤮 as of January 12.
Roguelike vs Roguelite - what's the difference? (whatnerd.com)
My takeaway is that it’s only original Rogue fans that care about the delineation of the terms. Is there a modern (i.e. post 2000s game) that matches the definition of a roguelike as given in the article?