It’s probably ~15 or so years old, it mentions Brogue as a recent release and that came out in 2009.
Nice to see a mention of the ##crawl channel on freenode, I spent a lot of time there during DCSS 0.9 to 0.12 or so, I even took 3rd in one of the online tournaments! [0] The guy that won that year was a child chess prodigy who then became a mathematics professor who has worked at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT. There was another top level player who was also a mathematician, and both of these guys won a Morgan Prize (and also have Wikipedia articles). I got a GED in my early 30s, somehow I was able to keep up ;)
Another regular from ##crawl posts on HN from time to time as well.
This is a blast from the past. I hadn't thought of elliptic in years.
At some point I should write up my roguelike recollections... maybe ten years ago, Ken Arnold was stopping by Boston. Haran, one of the other crawl devs, found out and drove all the way from New York to have coffee with us. All I really remember of that was Ken explaining that he added the food clock as a way of generically solving scumming.
> This is a blast from the past. I hadn't thought of elliptic in years.
Hehe, I figured someone would recognize who I meant! IIRC he had created an automated bot that was able to ascend with 3 runes, MiBe of Trog w/ Axes (for cleaving?). Elliptic and N78291 were my favorite players to watch, along with mikee_
That sounds like a fun little meetup, I kept in touch with a couple fellow ##crawl players for a while (crate and ophanim) but have lost touch. I know JoshTriplett posts here sometimes too.
I contributed a single patch myself, I do believe it was a mace/blunt weapon balance patch but it’s been a while!
Nice to see a mention of the ##crawl channel on freenode, I spent a lot of time there during DCSS 0.9 to 0.12 or so, I even took 3rd in one of the online tournaments! [0] The guy that won that year was a child chess prodigy who then became a mathematics professor who has worked at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT. There was another top level player who was also a mathematician, and both of these guys won a Morgan Prize (and also have Wikipedia articles). I got a GED in my early 30s, somehow I was able to keep up ;)
Another regular from ##crawl posts on HN from time to time as well.
[0] https://crawl.akrasiac.org/tourney12a/all-players.html