Falcon's Eye: The Making-Over of Nethack (O'Reilly)

[Posted January 8, 2003 by cook]

Howard Wen looks at Falcon's Eye, a modern version of the venerable Nethack game. "Falcon's Eye aims for a much more sophisticated transformation, visually and otherwise. It overlays the ASCII characters with detailed graphics presented in an isometric 3D perspective -- accompanied with animation, sound effects, and music -- for the dungeons, player characters, creatures, and items. This particular windowing interface also adds mouse support, tooltip information for creatures and items, shortcuts for several keyboard commands, and many customization options."