933: Hengband \\ High-Elf Weaponsmith: orc trash stack crash in the newbie dungeon!

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Published on May 16, 2022 9:57:15 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FweA3q53egU

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Playing a level 12 High-Elf Weaponsmith at Lev 8 of the Yeek cave noob dungeon in roguelike Angband variant dungeon crawler Hengband, compiled and running in Cygwin under Windows 11:

The game froze after a big fight on Lev 9 and I had to restart! = o (I've reported the bug to the Hengband team and sent them my recovery save files, I don't suppose those will give them enough data to debug it, though.)

0:00 - start
2:30 - Yeek cave Lev 8
16:59 - Yeek cave Lev 9
19:10 - Lagduf, the Snaga, & horde
25:59 - freeze!
31:09 - restoration
32:09 - Lev 8 again...
36:03 - Muzgash, the Snaga, & horde
43:33 - weapon extracting & enchanting
58:33 - armor extracting & enchanting
1:01:43 - Outpost - shopping
1:11:53 - extracting old armor, enchanting new armor
1:15:29 - Lev 9 again...
1:27:27 - Yeek cave Lev 10 (messy!)
1:35:50 - Brodda, the Easterling
1:42:57 - Outpost

At the end I said I'd play Angband next time, but I think maybe I'll keep playing Hengband--because I'm really getting antsy to see a non-Yeek cave, non-Angband dungeon! The variety of races and classes are kind of fun to mess with and all, but the Yeek cave is too easy to be that fun, and what I've seen of Hengband's version of the Angband dungeon is just Angband with kludgier floor generation--and the "quests" proved to be death traps--so the make or break for me in Hengband may be whether playing the OTHER dungeons is compelling. (Starting to think this is unlikely, since the real genius of Moria/Angband is the self-balancing nature of the single, down-makes-harder, infinitely replayable dungeon, whereas breaking the game up into multiple dungeons necessarily breaks, to at least for some time and to some degree before you get re-acclimated in the next dungeon, that self-balancing. And I've yet to find that sort of compelling experience in Hengband's Yeek cave and "Angband" dungeon.) (Also, that crash was kind of a downer.)

Was actually using a Rod of Trap Location this time--after embarrassingly forgetting once and getting my Dex drained : PPP--so that was kind of interesting, it's sort of fun to zap the Rod and clear out all those detection "x" marks from the map.

5/15/22

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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 3.0.0Alpha60, with a few tweaks (white color slightly dimmed, picking random locked doors always succeeds, and I censored the rare swear words : P).

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

The first time:
git clone https://github.com/hengband/hengband.git
cd hengband

After the first time:
cd hengband
git pull

Then:

aclocal
autoconf
autoheader
automake --add-missing
autoreconf
./configure --disable-japanese
make clean 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

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