NetHack is a fork of the 1984 game Hack. This version was first released in 1987, but the developers made NetHack open source, making it easy to get your hands on. That said, NetHack is, unlike most ...

Our memory has grown a bit hazy lately with the glut of cookie-cutter, loot-based RPGs that have carved a wide swathe across the gaming landscape. For many, Diablo is the earliest incarnation of the ...

Peter Morics is a list writer from the United States. He has been writing about video games for five years. He started out as a news writer, covering some of the biggest moments in the industry, but ...

NetHack is a one-of-a-kind gaming experience that has stood the test of time. This ASCII-based dungeon crawler combines depth, creativity, and challenge, making it a must-play for anyone who loves ...

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great success as high-level planners for zero-shot game-playing agents However, these agents are primarily evaluated on games where long-term planning ...

Members of the Legendary Computer Bugs Tribunal, honored guests, if I may have your attention? I would, humbly, submit a new contender for your esteemed judgment. You may or may not find it novel, you ...

Engineer Bartłomiej Kupiau shares a story about one of the strangest bugs he's ever seen, which he encountered while training a neural network to learn how to play the roguelike game NetHack. So ...

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), ...

Abstract: Roguelike games generally feature exploration problems as a critical yet often repetitive element of gameplay. Automated approaches, however, face challenges in terms of optimality, as well ...