Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++(github.com)

155 pointsby lowsun12 days ago10 comments

raspyberr9 days ago
It's funny that this roguelike is advertised as a roguelite and most roguelites are advertised as roguelikes.
- mcv9 days ago
  Yeah, the word "roguelike" seems to have rapidly lost its meaning these past couple of years.
  - darkfloo9 days ago
    It was always pretty nebulous, relevant video by DoshDoshington https://youtu.be/FT6XfaHgyh0?si=xayqzhkkmYjB4_UC
    dolni8 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.
    0x01FE8 days ago
    Great video
  - GuB-429 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.
    mcv9 days ago
    What do you mean by "carry over"? Even in Nethack, you can find the graves of previous characters.
  - dolni9 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.
  - jghn9 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.
    mcv9 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_Einzige9 days ago
    The term for OG roguelikes is the "Berlin interpretation" of roguelikes.
samrus9 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
h1fra9 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
- lock19 days ago
  Real life might be a (hardcore) roguelike game too! ... except you can't restart on failure or reroll your starter kit
  - monsieurbanana9 days ago
    > except you can't restart on failure
    The jury's still out in that one
  - tigerlily9 days ago
    And that's the trouble with death in rl, the permanence was never implied.
- escapecharacter9 days ago
  No one lets me use their bones files IRL though
camdroidw9 days ago
I know engineers don't like marketing but guys please please put screenshots before anything
Edit: okay I see them now but I quit the page once and I'm sure I'm not alone.
colordrops9 days ago
This is crazy in a good way
- t222ic9 days ago
  it actually … is?
Severian9 days ago
I use NP++ almost my entire day, and this would be great for short breaks. Awesome job!
shreyaha9 days ago
wow really a feel-good game
grimgrin9 days ago
this is the kinda github account I follow, peep their other work
adornKey9 days ago
Congratulations!
anupj9 days ago
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