Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

(github.com)

155 points by lowsun159 days ago

10 comments

raspyberr156 days ago
It's funny that this roguelike is advertised as a roguelite and most roguelites are advertised as roguelikes.
- mcv156 days ago
 Yeah, the word "roguelike" seems to have rapidly lost its meaning these past couple of years.
 - darkfloo156 days ago
 It was always pretty nebulous, relevant video by DoshDoshington <a href="https://youtu.be/FT6XfaHgyh0?si=xayqzhkkmYjB4_UC" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/FT6XfaHgyh0?si=xayqzhkkmYjB4_UC</a>
 - dolni155 days ago
 No, it wasn't always nebulous. Roguelike was a well-established genre for decades before it got hijacked and now means nothing.Like all genres, games within the roguelike genre (or what some people call "traditional roguelikes") have some variance. But if you played two games in the "traditional roguelike" genre, you'd definitely feel the similarities.These days if you pick two random games on Steam with the "roguelike" tag, you're going to get two experiences which are not even reminiscent of the other.
 - 0x01FE155 days ago
 Great video
 - GuB-42156 days ago
 Nowadays, roguelike = permadeath + procedural generation, roguelite = roguelike with some elements that carry over the next game.The actual roguelikes that look like Rogue: text based, turn-by-turn dungeon crawlers are often now called "traditional roguelikes".At first glance, it looks like a traditional roguelike, but maybe some elements carry over, putting it in the "roguelite" territory.
 - mcv155 days ago
 What do you mean by "carry over"? Even in Nethack, you can find the graves of previous characters.
 - dolni155 days ago
 The meaning degraded much earlier than just a couple years ago. People thought it was cool so they latched onto it. It seems like that process started 7-8 years ago, maybe even a bit further back.
 - jghn156 days ago
 I played a *lot* of rogue in the early 80s. I can't remember a single game marketed as a "roguelike" that I've played that reminded me of playing rogue.
 - mcv155 days ago
 I haven't played Rogue, but I've played a lot of Moria, Nethack, and AdoM. Those are what I think of when I hear "Roguelike", although even AdoM might be stretching it a bit with its massive non-random outdoor area.
 - Der_Einzige155 days ago
 The term for OG roguelikes is the "Berlin interpretation" of roguelikes.
samrus156 days ago
This is great. Old school game dev where youd built the whole engine optimized for the game rather than using an over generalized mess like unity or unreal
h1fra156 days ago
Programming might be a roguelike game, you fail many times at a task, starting from scratch again and again, until you master the field
- lock1156 days ago
 Real life might be a (hardcore) roguelike game too! ... except you can't restart on failure or reroll your starter kit
 - monsieurbanana156 days ago
 > except you can't restart on failureThe jury's still out in that one
 - tigerlily156 days ago
 And that's the trouble with death in rl, the permanence was never implied.
- escapecharacter156 days ago
 No one lets me use their bones files IRL though
camdroidw156 days ago
I know engineers don't like marketing but guys please please put screenshots before anythingEdit: okay I see them now but I quit the page once and I'm sure I'm not alone.
colordrops156 days ago
This is crazy in a good way
- t222ic156 days ago
  it actually … is?
Severian156 days ago
I use NP++ almost my entire day, and this would be great for short breaks. Awesome job!
shreyaha156 days ago
wow really a feel-good game
grimgrin156 days ago
this is the kinda github account I follow, peep their other work
adornKey156 days ago
Congratulations!
anupj156 days ago
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