867: Hengband \\ ~ The sea creatures teach me critical lessons = o ~

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Published on March 27, 2022 11:55:15 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SZ2u-htfbY

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Hengband is a free, roguelike dungeon exploration game, available in Japanese and English: get for Windows from https://hengband.github.io/ or play through your browser at https://angband.live

It is open source; you can download the source code and compile the game for yourself. I'm running an English ASCII version I compiled in Cygwin in Windows 11, based on the latest code under version 3.0.0Alpha56, with a few tweaks (white color slightly dimmed, picking random locked doors always succeeds).

19th level Barbarian Berserker:

0:00 - start
1:35 - Old Man Willow quest
16:35 - Thieves Hideout quest
19:15 - Warg problem quest
40:45 - Water Cave quest
44:26 - New Barbarian Berserker ;_;
1:09:29 - wrap!

Okay well I learned two definite lessons here:

a) Don't take a Danger level 35 quest when you're character level 21, no matter how tuff you think your Barbarian Berserker is!)

b) Barb-Berz's inability to use rods/staves/wands/scrolls leaves them without most of the usual means of escape when running into a scrape! = o

I was gonna try again with the Barb-Berz, because I was having so much fun smashing things, and indeed ground my way to level 7 and depth 4 of the Yeek cave at the end of the episode, but point b) having occurred now to me...I think I'll just roll a new random character next time and try something new! ^_^

3/26/22

#hengband #roguelike #freegame #opensourcegame #opensource #cygwin #rpg

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I compile and run Hengband in Cygwin (free from cygwin.org) in Windows 11 with these commands:

git clone https://github.com/hengband/hengband.git
cd hengband
aclocal
autoconf
autoheader
automake --add-missing
autoreconf
./configure --disable-japanese
make install CXXFLAGS="-g0 -O2"

Then delete the "Hengband" directory of VS build files inside my hengband project directory so it won't block running the compiled .exe with

./hengband -- -right 46x24,* -top *x12