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

Congratulations!

This is crazy in a good way

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

Programming might be a roguelike game, you fail many times at a task, starting from scratch again and again, until you master the field

wow really a feel-good game

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.

Real life might be a (hardcore) roguelike game too! ... except you can't restart on failure or reroll your starter kit

it actually … is?

And that's the trouble with death in rl, the permanence was never implied.

I use NP++ almost my entire day, and this would be great for short breaks. Awesome job!

> except you can't restart on failure

The jury's still out in that one

It's funny that this roguelike is advertised as a roguelite and most roguelites are advertised as roguelikes.

this is the kinda github account I follow, peep their other work

No one lets me use their bones files IRL though

Yeah, the word "roguelike" seems to have rapidly lost its meaning these past couple of years.

It was always pretty nebulous, relevant video by DoshDoshington https://youtu.be/FT6XfaHgyh0?si=xayqzhkkmYjB4_UC

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.

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.

The term for OG roguelikes is the "Berlin interpretation" of roguelikes.

What do you mean by "carry over"? Even in Nethack, you can find the graves of previous characters.

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.

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.

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.

Great video