735: Angband 4.2.3-193+ \\ Git, custom color schemes, hunting Smeagol, Father Christmas

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Published on December 25, 2021 7:23:49 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYmR7lpWis

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Angband (1992)

Duration: 4:54:26

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Merry Christmas!! I think I got so obsessed with building, color customizing, Smeagol and Santa hunting, and just dungeon exploring--I seem to lose track of time completely while playing this game!!--that I forgot to give the season's greetings explicitly! 'D'

Angband is a free, roguelike dungeon exploration game you can download from https://rephial.org, or play right through your web browser at https://angband.live . : )

And it's open source, so you can even download the source code and compile it yourself. I do a bit of that in this video; my step-by-step guide is on the Angband forum: http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=11013

This is with the latest, version 4.2.3-193 source code:

0:00 - start
0:30 - old version - custom color subwindow frame
3:27 - syncing w/ git & building latest source code
15:24 - custom color scheming
32:07 - running w/ my customized title screen 'p'
50:25 - actually kind of playing 'pp'
1:11:25 - Mughash the Kobold Lord
1:36:18 - Lagduf, the Snaga
1:55:51 - Staff of Detect Invisible
2:10:09 - Smeagol
3:02:30 - town
3:36:21 - seasonal visitors
3:51:22 - bow/crossbow testing
4:06:38 - Smeagol returns!
4:29:59 - depth 8
4:51:09 - wrap-up & what's next!

Notes:

3:27 - According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming, author Linus Torvalds' quip about his name for his "git" source control software he wrote for Linux was "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'"

44:02 - That "dirty" version number is currently on the game's manual site https://angband.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, so I guess it is the actual name of the current latest build; I'm not sure why it isn't reading the one I put in the "version" file, it did before

46:25 - The black border is up to my terminal emulation program (Cygwin's "mintty"), not Angband--thanks to backwardsEric for the tip! Easiest way to deal with it is to use the terminal program's settings to set a Background color matching color 0 in the game; or, in mintty, can put "border=0" in the config file (".minttyrc" in my home user directory), and try messing with font size until it comes closer to exactly fitting its rows and columns of characters to the screen resolution--those wider borders on right and bottom are just extra space where another column and row of characters can't quite fit.

1:55:56 - Tolkien pronouncing "Smeagol" (or "Sméagol," if you want to get technical) in-character as Gollum: https://youtu.be/AEDsyTE8YuI?t=90 (says it kind of like "shmee-gall"; the beginning and end might be his idea for Gollum's coarse pronunciation; at any rate, he doesn't seem to get caught up in trying to pronounce any special accent mark over the "e"

3:36:21 - According to I think a forum post, the "red-hatted elves" and "Father Christmas" can appear from December 24th through the 26th, as set by your system clock; the elves are aggressive and will come right after you and attack; Father Christmas comes right up to you, but does not attack; he's got a lot of hit points; I didn't get any loot from the elves; the elves seem to spawn more frequently (25%?) than Father Christmas (10%?), but you can get another spawn chance for them just by popping down to the first level of the dungeon and right back up to town again; probably inspired by Tolkien's "Father Christmas" letters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father_Christmas_Letters; ah and sheesh that explains the relatively early years: they were written to his children, not his grandchildren 'p' (I should have thought more about one of them being named 'Christopher' 'pp')

3:51:22 - Ahh I'm a chump: damage per round from missile weapons is shown under their ammo types, not under the weapons themselves

4:07:10 - I really didn't think Smeagol would reappear after I had failed to catch him, then gone back to town; good to know uniques will come back after such foolishness! Also, that infravision will spot warm-blooded invisible creatures

Merry Christmas!!

12/24/21

#angband #roguelike #freegame #opensourcegame #opensource #cygwin

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